Easy shrink method

[forthx]

Groboclown, I try your packing scripts ant at last it work

After reading the readme and installing ant, I have to:

• use “resources/global.properties” to create a local.properties (Mandatory for the setting of “default.jdk-dir”, i.e. “C:/Program Files/jdk1.7” no /bin !)
• change proguard version (I use jdk 1.7 and I solve some error using proguard 4.8)
• update ant-include.xml (add source="@{jdk-target}" at line 115, in javac-4k macrodef) to avoid javac warning.

Hope this help other users.

With Kzip, DeflOpt and yguard I reduce my archive size by 200 Bytes (compared to my manual processing using proguard and pack200)!

[Kronos]

@StephR

Kronos, did you try to unpack and test locally the resulting jar in a standard applet code ?

Input file : game.pack
Command line>unpack200 game.pack game.pack.test.jar  
Output file : game.pack.test.jar

That worked, and it is even smaller. However. Does that mean my pack.gz file will work at the 4K website?
Thank you very much, I am relieved a bit 8)

[StephR]

Kronos, did you try this html code on a webserver to test your game.pack.gz file ? Your html page and your game.pack.gz must be into the same directory.

If you did and that it failed, you should consider giving us the URL to your webserver…

[Riven]

To get an pack200 compressed jar working, you need a pack200 aware webserver.

Some idiot at Sun didn’t think this through.

[StephR]

Thanks for the information, Riven. I had really no idea of this problem.

And Kronos, maybe it’s time for you to submit your game at the www.java4k.com site.

[Kronos]

Why? Isn’t 28.02. the last day to submit?

I still have to put some extra flavour in the game

[Riven]

the Java4K webserver is pack200 aware, and therefore can be used to verify your pack200ed applet actually works.

[pjt33]

@Groboclown

I updated the my Java4k tools to include a trivial HTTPD server that knows how to handle pack200 file requests.

Didn’t you already have mine? If not it must have been someone else who was putting together a collection of resources from across the years.

[Groboclown]

@pjt33

@Groboclown

I updated the my Java4k tools to include a trivial HTTPD server that knows how to handle pack200 file requests.

Didn’t you already have mine? If not it must have been someone else who was putting together a collection of resources from across the years.

Nope, I missed that one. Although, over these years I’ve only kept a limited amount of the code posted up here. Most of it is either refinements of other code, or one-off snippets, but it would be interesting to see it all together in one place… Hm…