ZmtLaunchPlugin.java: shortcuts are added to distribution

        to launch simulation with GUI
added run-with-gui, run-with-gui.bat
    the shortcut templates

src/main/groovy/de/zmt/gradle/ZmtLaunchPlugin.groovy

@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ package de.zmt.gradle;
 
 import org.gradle.api.*
 import org.gradle.api.file.DuplicatesStrategy
+import java.nio.file.Files
+import java.nio.file.Path
+import java.nio.file.attribute.PosixFilePermissions
+import java.net.URL
+import groovy.lang.Writable
 
 /*
  * Distribution plugin for simulations based on zmt.core
@@ -9,14 +14,25 @@ import org.gradle.api.file.DuplicatesStrategy
  * With this plugin the simulation's jar file, source, dependencies
  * and the runtime dependencies are added to the distribution's lib
  * folder.
+ * <p>
+ * Start scripts for the launcher are added and a shortcut for running
+ * the simulation in GUI mode.
  */
 public class ZmtLaunchPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
     private static final def MAIN_CLASS_NAME = 'de.zmt.Main'
-
+    
+    private static final def SHORTCUT_UNIX = 'run-with-gui'
+    private static final def SHORTCUT_WIN = 'run-with-gui.bat'
+    
     private static final def CONFIGURE = {
         apply plugin: 'distribution'
         
-        def launcherProject = rootProject.ext.properties.get('launcherProject')
+        // create shortcuts
+        def shortcutDir = Files.createTempDirectory('shortcuts')
+        Path unixShortcut = createLauncherShortcut(project, SHORTCUT_UNIX, shortcutDir)
+        // set +x permissions for unix shortcut
+        Files.setPosixFilePermissions(unixShortcut, PosixFilePermissions.fromString('rwxr-xr-x'))
+        createLauncherShortcut(project, SHORTCUT_WIN, shortcutDir)
         
         distributions {
             main {
@@ -27,6 +43,9 @@ public class ZmtLaunchPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
                         from (project.sourceJar)
                         from (project.configurations.runtime)
                     }
+                    
+                    from (shortcutDir.toFile())
+                    
                     // prevent adding duplicates 
                     // e.g. when several projects depend on the same library
                     // otherwise they are added several times to archives
@@ -35,6 +54,7 @@ public class ZmtLaunchPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
             }
         }
         
+        def launcherProject = rootProject.ext.properties.get('launcherProject')
         // if this project is the launcher
         if (project.name == 'zmt-launcher') {
             // make it an application
@@ -103,6 +123,27 @@ public class ZmtLaunchPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
         }
     }
     
+    private static final def TEMPLATE_ENGINE = new groovy.text.SimpleTemplateEngine()
+    
+    /**
+      * Creates a launcher shortcut script. The template script is loaded
+      * from given file name, processed to match the current project
+      * and saved to the given directory.
+      *
+      * @param project the project
+      * @param filename the file name of the template and the resulting file
+      * @param directory the directory where to save the resulting file
+      * @return the path to the resulting file
+      */
+    private static Path createLauncherShortcut(Project project, String filename, Path directory) {
+        Path shortcut = Files.createFile(directory.resolve(filename))
+        
+        def binding = [projectName : project.name]
+        def templateUrl = ZmtLaunchPlugin.class.getResource(filename)
+        shortcut.append(TEMPLATE_ENGINE.createTemplate(templateUrl).make(binding))
+        return shortcut
+    }
+    
     @Override
     void apply(Project project) {
         project.configure(project, CONFIGURE)

src/main/resources/de/zmt/gradle/run-with-gui

+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+##############################################################################
+##
+##  shortcut script for UN*X to launch with GUI
+##
+##############################################################################
+
+./bin/launcher $projectName gui

src/main/resources/de/zmt/gradle/run-with-gui.bat

+@rem ##########################################################################
+@rem
+@rem  shortcut script for Windows to launch with GUI
+@rem
+@rem ##########################################################################
+
+.\\bin\\launcher.bat $projectName gui