How do I turn a folder into a JAR file?

IE_User_Forever · Post by **IE_User_Forever** » April 29th, 2007, 12:03 am

chrome.manifest file? I have the install RDF and contents RDF
- I gotta go to bed...

Post by **smsmith** » April 29th, 2007, 12:10 am

^It's just another way of doing things. The install.rdf and contents.rdf file are a fine way of doing it.

When you ZIP the folder, be INSIDE the folder, select all the contents inside the folder, then ZIP it. Rename that ZIP to the JAR.

Post by **steviex** » April 29th, 2007, 3:27 am

Have a look at the sticky at the top of this forum by ehume. He provides a step by step guide to how to do this.
IZarc is another good little program for Archiving files... Also free.

Old Greg S · Post by **Old Greg S** » April 29th, 2007, 5:56 am

If you are using winXP and also have within the Folder Options, this option unchecked "Hide extensions for know file types", then all you have to do is right click desktop or within your themes directory and select "New -> Compressed (zipped) Folder as YourTheme.zip. Select all your files then drag n drop into your YourTheme.zip, rename YourTheme.zip to YourTheme.jar. If the option mentioned above is checked and you do this you will probably end up with something like YourTheme.zip.zip which won't work. You can also use the zip progs mentioned by others but be sure after zipping that the prog didn't add your contents in a folder inside of the zip as in YourTheme.zip -> Folder(named YourTheme.zip) -> contents. It should be YourTheme.zip -> contents

ehume · Post by **ehume** » April 29th, 2007, 6:15 am

Two points:

1. You can set up IZarc to output jarfiles directly. This will save you the step of converting a zipfile to a jarfile.

2. If you select the My_Theme directory and zip it, you will get a zipfile that is named My_Theme.zip but which contains a My_Theme directory. This additional directory layer will make your theme unusable in Firefox. You must go inside the My_Theme directory, select everything inside it, and then make your zipfile. The result will be a My_Theme.zip file with the correct structure, one that Firefox can use.

IE_User_Forever · Post by **IE_User_Forever** » April 29th, 2007, 1:21 pm

I see why it says not a valid install package. I skipped that part.

IE_User_Forever · Post by **IE_User_Forever** » April 29th, 2007, 1:25 pm

I am editing the macfoxII theme (I think) and this is what the install package looks like: <xml>

<RDF>

<Description>
{Themes_UUID}
Themes_Version

<Target>


<Description>

{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}
Min_FF_Version
Max_FF_Version
</Description>


<Front>
macfoxII
OSX My_Theme
Kelly Cunningham
copyright (c) Kelly Cunningham
http://www.webether.com



<Front>
macfoxII
</Description>

</RDF>

What is the invalid part?