Artifact not opening when running

[cerulean kettle]

@vivid tiger has a question:

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yall i built my artifact in intellij and when running this jar it just doesnt open and quits. it runs normal in intellij. i dont know what to do or what i did wrong.

<@&987246399047479336> please have a look, thanks.

[soft ferry]

did you try running the jar by double clicking it?

try running it from console it might show some errors

[vivid tiger]

which console

intellij's or mac terminal

i ran it in the intellij console and it says that i am missing a txt file that i reference in my code

does this mean i have to include this txt with the jar

[soft ferry]

yeah kinda

you should put it in the resources folder

but you cant write to that file later on

its just for reading its content

so it depends on your use case

[vivid tiger]

i made a new txt file that i use for storing some information for the user. i am setting its path in the code using a string to the path src/assets/preferences/metatune_preferences.txt which the src is the project folder. does this mean i have to change the file path to be a folder within the jar file

[soft ferry]

no, the problem your approach has is that it works for on your pc, but wont on others

you basically hard code the location

there are different approaches, people usually create a dedicated folder for storing information in appdata or user.home/yourapp or similar

[vivid tiger]

ok thank you

im going to try this

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