Problems executing jar file outside of netbeans

[2potatocakes]

Hi guys,

I've spent the last couple of days trying to build my java application so that it will run in windows but am getting a different result outside of Netbeans to when I run it inside.

Basically I have a dozen or so class files with 1 main class file that executes my GUI. Inside netbeans it displays fine and all of my functionality works as well but when I build the file and then run it outside of netbeans the GUI is kind of all over the place. I'm 90% sure my manifest file and the build file is all correct, I've gone over it a dozen times.

To be honest, I have 3 main elements but there dimensions seemed to be all screwed up? Any ideas what I can do to fix this easily or should I go in and manually enter all the heights and widths etc??

<code>
panel.setLayout(null);
panel.add(mainOutput);
panel.add(userID);
panel.add(idLabel);
Insets insets = panel.getInsets();
Dimension size = mainOutput.getPreferredSize();
mainOutput.setBounds(180 + insets.left, 140 + insets.top,
size.width, size.height);
size = userID.getPreferredSize();
userID.setBounds(620 + insets.left, 125 + insets.top,
size.width, size.height);
size = idLabel.getPreferredSize();
idLabel.setBounds(515 + insets.left, 125 + insets.top,
size.width, size.height);
</code>

[2potatocakes]

Actually its more than just the display, I just changed the heights and widths manually and tried a calculation and its thrown up all sorts of errors.

How come I'm getting errors here and not in netbeans?? :(

[markw8500]

I am not 100% sure, but it might be because of your layout mgr being null... Try looking at one of these to see if they work better...

Also can you post some code and your errors...

[2potatocakes]

:) thanks, sorry, I posted up that wrong bit. Its definately more than just the display. That null part was just so I could do absolute positioning with those other elements and I thought that was it at first.

I'm wondering if it is something to do with the way I am building it in netbeans, or if there is something I haven't configured properly?

Here is the program running in netbeans:



And then when I try and run the Jar file from windows:

[markw8500]

I see... Are you using any external resources... Images, jars, files,etc... It could be that your app can not find them and it blows up...