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The First Ever tabbed File browser for the Mac
When you use your Mac, file browsing options are important. That's why Macintosh Explorer offers the familiar hierarchal, two-pane file view known to Windows users with the superior Macintosh look and feel.
The first ever Mac file browser to offer tabbed file browsing, Macintosh Explorer provides Mac users with exciting new options and a totally new file browsing experience. Windows users feel right at home while you adapt to the Macintosh interface. With additions you won't find in MS Windows, the benefits of using the Mac platform are just one download away.
Key Features
Check out some of the features Macintosh Explorer has to offer
- Tabbed file browsing reduces window clutter and allows instant switching between folders
- Thumbnail view lets you see previews of all picture files instead of just generic icons
- Hierarchical overview of all files and folders
- Filter file list only shows specific files that match a certain criteria making it easy to locate what you are looking for
- Folder banks provide the ability to group specific documents together
- Spring loading folders and advanced drag and drop features
- Preview files as you browse
- Store links to commonly used items
- Get and set extended finder info
- Batch file info changer
- Cut, copy and paste files like text in a text editor
- Permanently delete files and folders
- Open multiple browser windows
- Much, much more.
Key Points
- Windows Explorer interface for quickly finding files
- Cut, copy and paste documents
- Tabbed interface lets you browse multiple folders in one windows
- Fast and easy to use!
In the previous post, I showed how to create a Java applet, embed it in the same HTML page that wraps a Flex application, and call a public method in the applet from Flex. In this post, I will demonstrate creating a signed Java applet that will help a Flex application interact with the native OS.
Step 1. Create the Java applet
Create the following Java source file. Name it Launcher.java:
NOTE: The 'open' command only works on Mac OS X. For Windows, you'll need to execute 'start.exe' with some options. Since I don't have a Windows machine to test this on, you're, once again, on your own. Xenomarine (itch) mac os.
Compile the Java source:
javac Launcher.java
which should create the file Launcher.class. Now, you'll need to create a JAR archive of your class:
jar cf Launcher.jar Launcher.class
This should create Launcher.jar. Infiltrator mac os.
Step 2. Sign the Launcher JAR file
I'll cover this process in a very cursory manner. There are a lot of tutorials available on self-signing Java applets.
You'll need to create a public/private key pair using the keytool utility in the Java SDK: High noon slots.
keytool -genkey -keystore mykeystore -alias launcheralias
Next, create a self-signed certificate:
keytool -selfcert -keystore mykeystore -alias launcheralias He beat her. mac os.
Finally, sign the jar file:
jarsigner -keystore mykeystore Launcher.jar launcheralias
Step 3. Create a Flex application
Compile the Java source:
javac Launcher.java
which should create the file Launcher.class. Now, you'll need to create a JAR archive of your class:
jar cf Launcher.jar Launcher.class
This should create Launcher.jar. Infiltrator mac os.
Step 2. Sign the Launcher JAR file
I'll cover this process in a very cursory manner. There are a lot of tutorials available on self-signing Java applets.
You'll need to create a public/private key pair using the keytool utility in the Java SDK: High noon slots.
keytool -genkey -keystore mykeystore -alias launcheralias
Next, create a self-signed certificate:
keytool -selfcert -keystore mykeystore -alias launcheralias He beat her. mac os.
Finally, sign the jar file:
jarsigner -keystore mykeystore Launcher.jar launcheralias
Step 3. Create a Flex application
In FlexBuilder create a new project called Launcher and replace the contents of Launcher.mxml with:
Replace [path to a text file] with an absolute path to some text file on your system.
Copy the Launcher.jar file created in Step 2 to the bin directory of the Flex project. Nautical nonsense beta mac os.
Step 4. Adjust the HTML wrapper
Add the following just before the closing tag in the Flex applications' HTML wrapper:
Step 5. There is no step 5
Just launch the application. If your applet is signed and installed correctly, you should be presented with a security confirmation dialog. Click 'trust' then and click the 'Launch' button in the Flex application. This should open your text file in whatever editor is associated with the .txt extension on your computer.
What? It doesn't work? Of course not. Here's the catch:
Even though the applet is signed, and therefore has privileged access to the OS, the thread executing methods called from JavaScript, and any threads it creates, do not share this privileged access.
If you look at the Java console, you should see a line something like this:
Exception calling Runtime.exec(…) access denied (java.io.FilePermission <> execute)
which makes clear why the operation failed. For the night mac os.
We can get around this by making our applet considerably more complicated. We override the init() method, and spawn a new thread that is responsible for all operations that require privileged access. Public methods in our applet that are called from Javacript pass their work off to this thread, thus avoiding the problem with reduced privileges. Here's the new applet:
Now, repeat Steps 1 through 4 with this new applet. This time, clicking on the 'Launch' button should really open your file in the associated editor.
Some issues to consider
1. How to get method return values back to Flex? Shouldn't be too hard — the thread can put the results into a member variable in the applet class. More thread synchronization to handle, though.
2. How can the applet call back into Flex? It might be nice to let the applet go off and do some asynchronous processing, calling back into the Flex application when it's finished. It should be possible to do this if the applet can call a Javascript function. The Flex application can register a callback using ExternalInterface, which the applet can invoke.
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3. How to deal with race conditions at startup? The Java applet may fail to load entirely, or may load some time after the Flex application loads. Or, the Flex application may finish loading after the applet is done. The applet and Flex application need some way of knowing when the other one is prepared to communicate.
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4. How to (de)serialize Flex objects? The example I gave just passed a simple string into a Java method, but it's easy to conceive of more complex examples when object serialization would be required. Maybe an open source implementation of the AMF protocol could be included in the applet. The Artemis project uses this technique.
