B4J Question My App opens PDF in Debug but not in Release mode

[tsteward]

Can anyone advise how I fix this.
My B4J app runs the following code and in Debug mode it loads up the pdf but in release mode it does not.

Debug mode
ManualUri = file:/C:/Users/locki/Documents/MIAKeying/B4J/Files/MIA%20User%20Manual%200.2.6.pdf

In Release mode
ManualUri = jar:file:/C:/Users/locki/Documents/MIAKeying/B4J/Objects/MIAKeying.jar!/Files/MIA%20User%20Manual%200.2.6.pdf

Dim ManualUri As String = File.GetUri(File.DirAssets, "MIA User Manual 0.2.6.pdf")
                Log(ManualUri)
                fx.ShowExternalDocument(ManualUri)

 

[hatzisn]

why don't you just put this:

Dim ManualUri As String = File.Combine(File.DirAssets, "MIA User Manual 0.2.6.pdf")

This might not work because it is in File.DirAssets which is inside the jar. You might consider copying from DirAssets to an other Folder.

 

[tsteward]

why don't you just put this:

Dim ManualUri As String = File.Combine(File.DirAssets, "MIA User Manual 0.2.6.pdf")

This might not work because it is in File.DirAssets which is inside the jar. You might consider copying from DirAssets to an other Folder.

Copying to another folder was the solution. I thought assets were read only nut accessible. It seems not.

 

[Erel]

Assets files are embedded in the generated jar, in release mode. An external app cannot access the embedded files.

It works in debug mode because no jar is created.

 

[tsteward]

Assets files are embedded in the generated jar, in release mode. An external app cannot access the embedded files.

It works in debug mode because no jar is created.

Thank you Erel. I usually use B4A, this is one of the differences.

 

[Erel]

Note that in B4A (and B4i) the assets files are also handled a bit differently in related to the running mode. This is done to allow updating files without making a full compilation.