[kepler-users] Vista Problems

[Kenneth Evans, Jr.]

FYI: I tried to uninstall Kepler on Vista tonight.  The uninstaller (javaw)
hung and had to be killed.  It seemed to be doing registry keys related to
CurrentControlSet.    Unfortunately I did not get a screen dump.  The
program no longer appeared in Programs and Features (the new name for Add /
Remove Programs) and so could not be run again.  Most of the directory was
left.  However, the uninstaller could not be run from there, either.

 

        -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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