Inside Macintosh: Using JBindery

The Properties Panel

Figure 1-6 shows the Properties panel of JBindery. You use this panel to set text properties to be added to the Java environment before calling the application's main method. Adding property values using this panel is analogous to calling the method java.lang.System.setProperties or specifying -D property= value on a UNIX command line.

Figure 1-6 The Properties panel

You add a property as a property/value pair. For example, in Figure 1-6 , the property apple has the value red . The Add button adds the property/value pair currently in the text field to the properties list. The Delete button removes the currently selected property from the list.

You can use the Properties panel to override the value of user.dir , which indicates the current working directory. For example, you can set the user.dir value to /$APPLICATION/MyStuff , which indicates the MyStuff subdirectory of the application's directory.