tiimagetool

[+dhe]

I've been playing with TI ImageTool - it's a really nice tool, with great documentation.

 

Last night I wanted to test a disk image for errors/problems/bad things. It has a really nice check disk feature, and even offers to repairs errors that it finds, and gives you the option to save to a log file.

 

So, when working under linux, I usually start a *.jar file from the command line with: javaws {something}.jar. It would appear Windows 10 doesn't like you to do that, and instead prefers that you just double click on the jar file.

 

javaws - WILL tell you if your Java is out of date, warn you of your potential demise if you don't update immediately and takes you to the updater.

 

Dano

[mizapf]

I just had to look it up: javaws is "Java Web Start". I thought Java Web Start is already deprecated, isn't it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Web_Start

[+pixelpedant]

In my case (since I am likewise a big fan of TI Image Tool), I launch TI Image Tool on Windows 10 (always without issue) via the following command:

 

start javaw -jar "C:\TI99\Image Tool\tiimagetool.jar"

 

Part of the reason for using this command is that I want to be able to associate relevant file types with the application. 

 

To do that I've got a Batch file containing the following:

 

@echo off
start javaw -jar "C:\TI99\Image Tool\tiimagetool.jar" %1

And that's associated with relevant file types.  So I can just double click, say, a .cf7 file to open it in TI Image Tool.

[+dhe]

Thanks pixelpedant, that works like a charm, and I'm a big fan of using batch files.