bae

Do all java executable files have the JAva Logo (the cup of steaming java) in the top left corner?

elford

Some do, some don't. Most users don't know how to launch a Java application on their system, and I think this is the reason. JAR files, which are essentially executable java zip files, on my system have a generic icon from Windows that most people wouldn't know they are related to Java. On the other hand, I know Jar files on Mac have the logo you describe, so it's a clearer indicator that it is an executable Java file.

B3TA_SCR1PT3R

mainly the ones you get from sun.com will have that, just cause its their logo or watever. jar files default to the (on windows) rich edit icon (or watever its called), not sure about other OS's, but when you compile a Jar through command line, IIRC you can define the icon you want, and that will apear in the top left of the GUI and on desktop or whereever

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bae

does the same apply in C++?
(is it there a similar sitiuation?)

elford

It's totally different in C++. When you compile in C++, you wind up with an .out file (*nix) or an obj file (Windows). I'm not too familiar about C++ on Windows, but the .out file on Unix is executable...on Windows, I'm not sure...last time I compiled a C program on Windows, I had to link all of my obj files together to make them executable.

At any rate, on Windows, executable programs have either an icon defined by the executable itself (look at any EXE file in Program Files), or will have an icon that looks like a box with a blue bar across the top (it looks like a window).

elford

Curiously, do you have a specific reason for asking about the icons?

coldDeath

On windows, after C++ goes through the compiler and linker without any errors it makes an executable file (.exe).

On *nix it doesn't need a file extension, i could call my executable binary hello.txt and it woudl still be a binary.

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