[kepler-dev] Kepler startup problem (Welcome screen?)

[Dan Higgins]

Christopher,
    And, by the way, I mean I am getting a REALLY blank window; 
absolutely nothing in it (not just an empty Graph Editor)
Dan

Christopher Brooks wrote:

>Hi Dan,
>
>BTW - Perhaps one issue is that I modified
>ptII/ptolemy/vergil/VergilApplication so that it checks to see if
>_applicationBlankPtolemyEffigyAtStartup is present, and if it is and
>is true, then a blank Graph Editor is created when Vergil is invoked
>with no arguments.  So, the default is now that we don't pop up
>a blank Graph Editor, but applications like Kepler can do so if they
>want to.
>
>ptII/ptolemy/configs/defaultFullConfiguration.xml
>contains:
>  <!-- Do not create a blank Graph Editor at start time. -->
>  <!--  Used in VergilApplication.java-->
>  <property name="_applicationBlankPtolemyEffigyAtStartup"
>            class="ptolemy.data.expr.Parameter"
>            value="false"/>
>
>Which means vergil won't pop up a blank Graph Editor.
>
>Since Kepler has a copy of VergilApplication, this should not affect
>Kepler, but ya never know.
>
>The fix would be to edit Kepler's configuration.xml and add:
>  <!-- Do not create a blank Graph Editor at start time. -->
>  <!--  Used in VergilApplication.java-->
>  <property name="_applicationBlankPtolemyEffigyAtStartup"
>            class="ptolemy.data.expr.Parameter"
>            value="true"/>
>
>_Christopher
>--------
>
>    Hi Nandita,
>        This morning, with new checkouts of PTII and Kepler, I get a blank 
>    Kepler screen on startup. I suspect that it is some bug with the Startup 
>    Screen changes you made (since those were the only changes I saw). Can 
>    you confirm the problem and get it fixed?
>    
>    Dan
>    
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Dan Higgins                                  higgins at nceas.ucsb.edu
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/    Ph: 805-893-5127
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