[kepler-users] Vista Problems

Tue Oct 23 20:34:12 PDT 2007

Dan,

First, I tried setting the JRE using your instructions.  It says it can't
find 1.6.0_03.  (Is that the problem with using 1.6?) 

It runs but has the same File | Open problem with 1.5.0_09 (which seems to
be the same version that comes with Kepler).

I downloaded 1.5.0_13, and that worked.  I think the problem here is that
Java was fixed for Vista sometime after 1.5.0_09.  It was fixed for 1.6
first, but is now fixed for the current 1.5 as well.

BTW I have been using 1.6 for some time and haven't had any significant
problems.  The performance is apparently significantly better for 1.6
compared to 1.5.  In any event Kepler appears to be working for me, now with
1.5.0_13.

Second, if you haven't tested the installer with Vista, then it isn't
surprising it doesn't work so well.  Vista is more locked down for security
reasons.  For the record, in my case:

1. It hung near the end a couple of times.

2. Once it had failed once and had to be killed, it hung early until a
reboot.

3. I did get it to run to completion twice.  I'm not sure why it hung
sometimes and worked some times.

4. I was unable to get the uninstaller to work.  I continued to install on
top of the existing files.

5. At one time I copied the whole directory from my XP installation.  It
seemed to work but had the File | Open problem.  I reinstalled it, however,
before I tried 1.5.0_13.

This is a program that seems to operate pretty much like Eclipse; that is,
the executable is a launcher for the JVM, and it is really mostly Java.
Eclipse runs fine on Vista and of course it installs fine since the
installation is just to unzip it.  Tying to do it the Eclipse way might be
attractive (if you want advice from a newbie ;-). 

In any event thanks for your help.  I am working on getting experience with
it.  Clearly a lot of work has gone into it.  Is it usually this long
between releases?

Thanks,

        -Ken

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From: Dan Higgins [mailto:higgins at nceas.ucsb.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:44 AM
To: Kenneth Evans, Jr.
Cc: Kepler-users at ecoinformatics.org
Subject: Re: [kepler-users] Vista Problems

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.createVal
ue(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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