Revision as of 11:37, 9 May 2007

Prerequisites

• You should have a JRE (or JDK) 1.5 or newer installed.

• You should get the Java Access Bridge for Windows. What you get is an executable file that starts an InstallShield installer.

Installation

• Start the executable, you will get a prompt that you have to be administrator to install. Do not confirm this dialog yet. (You can also use a parameter, e.g. /x or /Va to force the installer to bring up some dialog that has to be confirmed before the temporary files are removed).

• Go to your Temporary folder. There you should find a directory starting with _is.

• Inside this directory there is an .msi package. Copy this package somewhere else.

• Quit the installation by confirming the dialog of the installer.

[h:\download]accessbridge-2_0_1.exe

[h:\download]cdd %TEMP%

[D:\temp]dir _is*

 Volume in drive C is unlabeled      Serial number is 006F:2A2C
 Directory of  D:\Temp\_is*

 5/09/2007  13:13         <DIR>    _is14E2
              0 bytes in 0 files and 1 dir
 47,695,204,352 bytes free

[D:\temp]cd _is14E2\

[D:\temp\_is14e2]dir

 Volume in drive C is unlabeled      Serial number is 006F:2A2C
 Directory of  D:\Temp\_is14E2\*

 5/09/2007  13:13         <DIR>    .
 5/09/2007  13:13         <DIR>    ..
 5/09/2007  13:13           4,632  0x0409.ini
 5/09/2007  13:13       1,953,280  Java Access Bridge.msi
 5/09/2007  13:13           1,209  Setup.INI
 5/09/2007  13:13             187  _ISMSIDEL.INI
      1,959,308 bytes in 4 files and 2 dirs    1,970,176 bytes allocated
 47,695,204,352 bytes free

[D:\temp\_is14e2]copy "Java Access Bridge.msi" D:\Temp
D:\Temp\_is14E2\Java Access Bridge.msi => D:\Temp\Java Access Bridge.msi
     1 file copied

[D:\temp\_is14e2]cd ..

[D:\temp]

• Now, you can unpack the files of the .msi package by starting the installer with the /a option. Note, that you need administrative permissions or some kind of sudo even for that. You will get a dialog with a destination folder. The files are then installed into that folder instead of into %PROGRAMFILES%\Java\jre_xxx\lib.

Now you have the necessary files to use the Java Access Bridge.

Using the Access Bridge with OOo

• Copy the file accessibility.properties to %UserProfile% and add a dot at the beginning of the filename (the Unix-convention for rc files residing in your home directory).

copy accessibility.properties %UserProfile%\.accessibility.properties

• Copy the *.dll files into the program folder of your OOo installation.

copy *.dll D:\MyOOoInstallation\program

• copy the *.jar files somewhere, e.g. the classes subdirectory of the OOo program directory.

copy *.jar D:\MyOOoInstallation\program\classes