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This is a GUI AlarmClock application implementing two independent alarms. Each alarm can be set to 'Alarm At', eg 13:15, or 'Alarm In', eg 1 hour 10 mins. Each alarm also incorporates a 'Snooze' button that will pause a ringing alarm for 5 minutes.
AlarmClock is written in Java using NetBeans as an IDE. The project must be maintained via NetBeans to preserve it's support files, (*.form, build.xml, etc) which are tracked in git. The repository is also configured for Autotools. The AutoTools files exist in parallel to the NetBeans files and do not conflict.
The NetBeans part of the project is expected to be used for development only. Once development is complete AutoTools takes over to provide basic build and packaging which downstream can be turned into debian, rpm etc packages. AutoTools will build an end-user application consisting of:-
The main application jar file.
A bash start-up script.
A manual page for the start-up script.
A desktop file for a GUI start-up of the application. (It invokes the
bash script).
As a Java application it can run on many operating systems.
The easiest way to use a jar file is to compile and build within NetBeans. This produces the application in the dist subdirectory. The application can then be run using:-
java -jar "dist/AlarmClock.jar"
with the path modified as necessary.
N.B. If you wish to move the application to another location you must move the relative subdirectory 'lib' with it. i.e. the jar and the lib directory must maintain their relative relationship.