[kepler-dev] Can not invoke Graphic Editor and open sample files

[Chad Berkley]

Hi Tim,

I'm not sure why you can't save that actor.  You should be able to. 
Right now, the actor library is in flux because we are in the middle of 
making some major modifications to it.  My suggestion if you want to 
save actors to the library is to use alpha2.  Our next release should 
re-include the functionality to save composite actors in the library. 
It should be out sometime in the next month or so.

Let us know if you have any other problems.

thanks,
chad

Tim Wong wrote:
> Hi Chad,
> 
> The Kepler runs again after I moved the UserLibrary.xml away from the
> ".ptolemyII" dirctory.  My Composite actor is consisted of an
> expression reader, expression actor, and a display actor.
> 
> Is there any reason why this combination won't work?  (It is on the
> user guide).
> 
> Does this mean that we can't have user defined composite actor in this
> alpha version?
> 
> Also, I find that the Java Web Start version of Kepler does not launch
> under my Windows XP enviroment.  Is this just me? Or other people are
> facing the same problem.  I tried it with two Windows XP machine
> already.
> 
> Thank you.
> Tim
> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:38:02 -0700, Chad Berkley <berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> 
>>Hmm, that's interresting.  I just tried to reproduce your error and I
>>successfully saved a (very simple) composite actor to the library
>>(although it doesn't show up in the library rendering because we aren't
>>importing the "User Library" with the actor library updates).  It is
>>saving the actor to the UserLibrary.xml file which is located in your
>>home directory under .ptolemyII/UserLibraray.xml.  Check in that file
>>for the moml for your actor.  you could also just try moving that file
>>somewhere else and see if kepler will run.
>>
>>chad
>>
>>
>>
>>Tim Wong wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Chad,
>>>
>>>I don't seem to find my actor in the basicKeplerActorLibrary.xml file.
>>> By the way, is this file supposed to be overwirtten when I reinstall
>>>Kepler?
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>Tim
>>>
>>>
>>>On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:38:05 -0700, Chad Berkley <berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi Tim,
>>>>
>>>>This is most likely a problem with the enhancements that we made to the
>>>>actor library for alpha 3 which aren't completely done yet (hence the
>>>>alpha release).  My guess is that it tried to save your composite actor
>>>>to the actor library moml file
>>>>(kepler/configs/ptolemy/configs/kepler/basicKeplerActorLibrary.xml)
>>>>which now uses a different format than what it used to use.  check out
>>>>that file and see if you see markup for your new actor.  If you do,
>>>>remove it and kepler will probably work again.  we'll have to check out
>>>>how to get back the functionality of saving actors to the libarary.
>>>>
>>>>let me know how that works.
>>>>
>>>>thanks,
>>>>chad
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Tim Wong wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi, I'm Tim, a new subsciber to the Kepler-dec list from UC Davis
>>>>>Database group.  I am currently facing the following problems;
>>>>>
>>>>>I installed Kepler-1.0.0 alpha3, and JRE 1.4.2_05 in Windows XP.  I
>>>>>followed the Kelpher user guide, and successfully built the the first
>>>>>couple sample applications.  However, when I tried to save my
>>>>>composite actor in the library, Kelpher crashed.
>>>>>
>>>>>>From that point on, I was not able to invoke the graphic editor and
>>>>>opened any sample file from the main page.  Kelper will show me the
>>>>>jar file source code instead of opening the editor.  I checked my
>>>>>system, jar file is assoicated with the "javaw.exe".
>>>>>
>>>>>I tried reinstalling my JVM and Kepler, but the problem remained there.
>>>>>
>>>>>Anyone has any idea?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thank you.
>>>>>
>>>>>Tim
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>>>>