melwyncarlo/Typing_Practice_and_Test

An app for practising, honing, and testing your typing skills.

Typing Practice and Test

An app for practising, honing, and testing your typing skills.

Note:

• Download the *.deb file to run on Linux. As I am not experienced in packaging java applications for native systems, the *.deb file has not been tested, and may be subject to errors.

• Download the *.jar file to run on any operating System (Windows, Linux, MacOS, etc.) having one of the JREs (e.g. OpenJDK) installed. The *.jar file is guaranteed to work using a Java Runtime Environment (JRE); also referred to as Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

• To compile and build native executables, make sure to download the relevant OpenJFX Version 17.0.1 SDK/JMod files.

• If you're using the package shell script for the jpackage command (in order to generate the app-image), make sure to make the following change, following the package script, but preceding the runpkg script:

  • At the following relative path, package/appimage/TypingPracticeAndTest/lib/app, in the following file, TypingPracticeAndTest.cfg, replace app.mainclass= TypingPracticeAndTest/App with app.mainclass=TypingPracticeAndTest/App.

  • The additional space has been removed as it causes an error during run-time. Also, the generation of the space itself could be an OpenJDK bug.

• If you're compiling for packaging, that is, using the jpackage command, following the javac and jar commands, then make the following changes to the Model.java file:

  • Un-comment the code at line number 18 : private static String APP_DIR_PATH = System.getProperty("filepath");

  • Comment out the code at line number 20 : private static String APP_DIR_PATH = "TypingPracticeAndTest";

  • If you're compiling normally (for JRE), using javac and java, then reverse the above changes.