[kepler-users] Vista Problems

[Dan Higgins]

Hi Kenneth,
    I am sorry to say that no one here has any experience with running 
Kepler under Vista. Frankly, Vista users seem to quite rare around NCEAS 
and UC Santa Barbara. We don't even have a Vista machine to test the 
installers on! I am interested if others are having problems (and we 
clearly need to dig into this issue).
    With regard to setting the jre, if you are launching Kepler using 
'kepler-1.0.0beta3.exe' you can set the jre by editing the file 
'kepler-1.0.0beta3.lax'. Open the *.lax file in a text editor and find 
the appropriate line (see below)

#   LAX.NL.CURRENT.VM
#   -----------------
#   the VM to use for the next launch

lax.nl.current.vm=jre\\bin\\java.exe


Dan Higgins
NCEAS
UC Santa Barbara

Kenneth Evans, Jr. wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  
>
> I just learned about Kepler and am getting familiar with it.  I 
> installed it on Windows XP, but when I tried to install it on Vista, 
> it hung several times but eventually succeeded.
>
>  
>
> Unfortunately, I get an exception using File | Open.
>
>  
>
> java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 3184
>
>             at 
> sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.getFileChooserIcon(Unknown Source)
>
>             at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2.get(Unknown Source)
>
>             at sun.awt.shell.ShellFolder.get(Unknown Source)
>
>             at 
> com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel$LazyWindowsIcon.createValue(Unknown 
> Source)
>
>             at javax.swing.UIDefaults.getFromHashtable(Unknown Source)
>
>             at javax.swing.UIDefaults.get(Unknown Source)
>
>             at javax.swing.MultiUIDefaults.get(Unknown Source)
>
>             at javax.swing.UIDefaults.getIcon(Unknown Source)
>
>             at javax.swing.UIManager.getIcon(Unknown Source)
>
>             at 
> javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicFileChooserUI.installIcons(Unknown Source)
>
>             at 
> javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicFileChooserUI.installDefaults(Unknown Source)
>
>             at 
> javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicFileChooserUI.installUI(Unknown Source)
>
>             at 
> com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsFileChooserUI.installUI(Unknown 
> Source)
>
>             at javax.swing.JComponent.setUI(Unknown Source)
>
>             at javax.swing.JFileChooser.updateUI(Unknown Source)
>
>             at javax.swing.JFileChooser.setup(Unknown Source)
>
>             at javax.swing.JFileChooser.<init>(Unknown Source)
>
>             at javax.swing.JFileChooser.<init>(Unknown Source)
>
>             at ptolemy.gui.Top._open(Top.java:649)
>
>             at 
> ptolemy.gui.Top$FileMenuListener.actionPerformed(Top.java:1024)
>
>             at 
> ptolemy.vergil.basic.MenuMapper$1.actionPerformed(MenuMapper.java:326)
>
>             at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown 
> Source)
>
>             at 
> javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
>
>             at 
> javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
>
>             at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
>
>             at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(Unknown Source)
>
>             at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(Unknown 
> Source)
>
>             at 
> javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(Unknown 
> Source)
>
>             at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
>
>             at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
>
>             at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
>
>             at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
>
>             at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
>
>             at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
>
>             at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
>
>             at 
> java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
>
>             at 
> java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
>
>             at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown 
> Source)
>
>             at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
>
>             at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
>
>             at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
>
>             at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
>
>             at 
> java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
>
>             at 
> java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
>
>             at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
>
>             at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
>
>             at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
>
>  
>
> Reinstalling didn't help.  I've spent a couple of hours working on 
> it.  The mailing list archives are hard to search, but I didn't see 
> anything on Vista in the first few.  Does anyone have any advice / 
> suggestions?
>
>  
>
> I installed the version with the JRE (kepler-1.0.0beta3-jre.exe) since 
> the working JRE on my system is 1.6.0_03, and it said that wouldn't 
> work. Is there a way to specify the JRE, rather than installing the 
> JRE alongside Kepler?
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
>  
>
>         -Ken
>
>  
>
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