Windows
Window exe file which runs JIBS using your installed Java
6.
There is no installation - just download and run the file - usually by
double clicking on it.
The program is identical to the jar file version below, just with a
Windows wrapper.
Windows wrapper provided by Launch4J. Other
Java jar file which runs JIBS using your installed Java.
There is no installation - just download and run the file - usually by
double clicking on it.
Works on Windows and any other operationing system which runs Java 6.
The program is identical to the exe version above, just without
the Windows wrapper.
This is a
Java program so you need Java 6. Java can be downloaded from java.sun.com.
Latest Java
Java 4 and 5
This version is for older operating systems without Java 6 support.
Legacy
Java jar file which runs JIBS using your installed Java.
There is no installation - just download and run the file - usually by
double clicking on it.
Works on Windows and any other operationing system which runs Java 6.
Memory Issue:
Java 4 and 5 by default give a
program very little memory.
This can slow JIBS down, particularly with the thumbnail view.
Starting with
2.3.3, JIBS now by default starts with -Xms40M -Xmx100M.
You further adjust
the memory by starting JIBS with the following
command line: java -Xms200M
-Xmx1000M -jar JIBS.jar
For ease of use,
this can be added to a Windows shortcut, or put in a batch file or
command script.
Before Java 6, the
default heap size was initially 2 megabytes with a maximum of 64
megabytes . Not much really. The command above raise the initial to 200
megabytes and the maximum to 1 gigabyte. Java 6 does memory
allocation based on how much memory is actually on the machine, so this
is often much less of a problem with Java 6.
Options for starting
Jibs with custom properties files
Default operation.
All properties are kept in Java's default location for you operating
system. For Windows, this is in the Windows registry.
Look in same directory as Jibs.
Jibs will now look in the directory where jibs.jar is for: jibs.props
If that file is found, Jibs will read its properties from that file not
from the system. The file can be created as an empty file and Jibs will
just start using it.
Specify where to get properties from.
You specify what property file Jibs will use with -props D:\dev\workspaces\JIBS\bin\jibs.props
If the properties file does not exist, Jibs will try to create it.
Thumbdrive option.
This tells Jibs to use specific sub-directories from where it starts.
This is meant to enable loading jibs.jar with some sub-directories onto
a thumbdrive and running jibs from the thumbdrive. -thumbdrive
Jibs will look for and try to create the following sub-diretories of
the directory where jibs.jar is located: pictures park delete
Thumbdrive takes precedence over any directories set in the property
files.
Options for starting
Jibs with particular directories
You can start JIBS
with a particular directory showing (-view)
and a particulary directory (-tree)
as the root fo the tree on the right. The following command shows how
to do this: