I'm trying to make a game similar to Wumpus, and so far, it works perfectly in Eclipse. I am currently using JavaFX only for its Media and MediaPlayer class. I decided to export the game as a runnable JAR to see if it would work, but when I double-clicked the JAR to run the program, nothing happened. If I ran the runnable JAR file through command prompt however, the program opened up and worked fine. When I went back in the code, removed anything JavaFX-related, and then exported it as a runnable JAR though, the JAR opened and the program ran fine, without any need for command prompt. If anyone could help me figure out why this happens, and how I can fix this, it would be much appreciated! Here is the code from the main class, if it helps at all(its probably really messy)
package game;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyListener;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.Timer;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.media.Media;
import javafx.scene.media.MediaPlayer;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class Game extends Application implements ActionListener, KeyListener {
public static Game game;
private JFrame frame;
private Timer timer;
private Renderer renderer;
private Tile[][] tiles;
private Player player;
private Media themeSong;
private MediaPlayer musicPlayer;
public JLabel explosionGIF;
public Game() {
frame = new JFrame(GameData.FRAME_NAME);
explosionGIF = new JLabel();
timer = new Timer(GameData.UPDATE_SPEED_MS, this);
renderer = new Renderer();
renderer.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(GameData.FRAME_WIDTH, GameData.FRAME_HEIGHT));
frame.add(renderer);
frame.setResizable(true);
frame.setVisible(true);
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.addKeyListener(this);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
initialize();
timer.start();
}
private void initialize() {
tiles = new Tile[GameData.TILE_AMOUNT][GameData.TILE_AMOUNT];
for (int r = 0; r < tiles.length; r++) {
for (int c = 0; c < tiles[r].length; c++) {
tiles[r][c] = new Tile(r, c);
}
}
player = new Player();
GameData.FRAME_WIDTH_DIFFERENCE = frame.getWidth() - GameData.FRAME_WIDTH;
GameData.FRAME_HEIGHT_DIFFERENCE = frame.getHeight() - GameData.FRAME_HEIGHT;
}
private void startMusic() {
musicPlayer.play();
}
public void render(Graphics g) {
for (Tile[] tileArr : tiles)
for (Tile tile : tileArr)
tile.render(g);
player.render(g);
}
private void update() {
updateSize();
if (musicPlayer != null && (musicPlayer.getCurrentTime().greaterThanOrEqualTo(musicPlayer.getStopTime())
|| musicPlayer.getCurrentTime().compareTo(musicPlayer.getStartTime()) == 0)) {
startMusic();
}
}
private void updateSize() {
if (frame.getPreferredSize().getWidth() != GameData.FRAME_WIDTH
|| frame.getPreferredSize().getHeight() != GameData.FRAME_HEIGHT) {
renderer.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(frame.getWidth() - GameData.FRAME_WIDTH_DIFFERENCE,
frame.getHeight() - GameData.FRAME_HEIGHT_DIFFERENCE));
GameData.FRAME_WIDTH = (int) frame.getWidth() - GameData.FRAME_WIDTH_DIFFERENCE;
GameData.FRAME_HEIGHT = (int) frame.getHeight() - GameData.FRAME_HEIGHT_DIFFERENCE;
GameData.TILE_WIDTH = GameData.FRAME_WIDTH / GameData.TILE_AMOUNT;
GameData.TILE_HEIGHT = GameData.FRAME_HEIGHT / GameData.TILE_AMOUNT;
}
}
@Override
public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {
}
@Override
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
}
@Override
public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) {
switch (e.getKeyCode()) {
case KeyEvent.VK_LEFT:
player.move(GameData.MovementDirections.LEFT);
break;
case KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT:
player.move(GameData.MovementDirections.RIGHT);
break;
case KeyEvent.VK_UP:
player.move(GameData.MovementDirections.UP);
break;
case KeyEvent.VK_DOWN:
player.move(GameData.MovementDirections.DOWN);
break;
case KeyEvent.VK_SPACE:
break;
}
}
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
renderer.repaint();
update();
}
public JFrame getFrame() {
return frame;
}
public Tile[][] getTiles() {
return tiles;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
game = new Game();
}
});
Application.launch();
}
@Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
themeSong = new Media(getClass().getResource("/sound/theme.mp3").toExternalForm());
musicPlayer = new MediaPlayer(themeSong);
}
}