[kepler-dev] Kepler alpha7

Wed Jul 13 11:32:04 PDT 2005

    Your toolbar icons problem is very strange! The toolbar on my 
machine (and several others here) is identical to the one displayed by 
PTII 5.0-beta. And, as far as I can determine no one working on Kepler 
has done anything with the toolbar!  I'll keep looking to see if I can 
figure out what is going on.

Thanks,

Dan

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Edward A. Lee wrote:

>
> The toolbar icons are from version 3.0 and the utilities and actor 
> libraries
> are from version 3.0... If the configuration is a copy of the standard
> one, that would explain the libraries, but it would not explain the 
> toolbar
> icons...
>
> Edward
>
> At 01:57 PM 7/11/2005 -0700, Dan Higgins wrote:
>
>> Edward,
>>    Thanks for looking at the release and the comments!
>>
>>    Why do you think we are using version 3.0 of Ptolemy II? (If we 
>> are, then I made a major mistake!) The build was (supposedly) made 
>> using the head of the PTII CVS as of 10AM on 9 July. All the PTII 
>> code is the kepler.jar file. If you click on the 'Ptolemy 
>> Introduction' link in the intro.htm screen, we are linking to a 
>> screen that says "Ptolemy II Version 5.1-devel".
>>    Maybe we mislead you by not exposing all the latest models and 
>> directors in the 'Workflow Component' tree on the left? It was 
>> decided to only exposed four directors (CT, SDF, PN, and DE) so as to 
>> minimize confusion for non-CS Kepler users. I think the code for most 
>> of the actors in PTII 5.1 is included so most Ptolemy demos should 
>> work (if the user has Java3D installed; I didn't include it in the 
>> distribution).
>>
>>    The first demo failure may have been due to you not being connect 
>> to the Internet when running? [I never checked that case and it seems 
>> to run OK on any machines that are connected.]
>>
>>    I'll look into the other comments that you made and see if I can 
>> fix things. Thanks again.
>>
>> Dan Higgins
>>
>>
>> Edward A. Lee wrote:
>>
>>> At 09:44 AM 7/11/2005 -0700, Dan Higgins wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>     There are preliminary versions of the Kepler alpha7 installers in
>>>> the http://kepler-project.org/dist/ direcory. However, the web site 
>>>> has
>>>> not been updated with links to these new versions. I propose not to
>>>> create these new link for a few days to let you all check workflows of
>>>> particular interest. (I know that some do not work. :-(  ) Let me know
>>>> if you find problems or need the links added right away.
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I just tried it out, and looks pretty good...
>>> Here are some immediate reactions:
>>>
>>> - This release appears to be based on version 3.0 of Ptolemy II.
>>>   This is two major releases behind!
>>>   5.0 has been released in beta, and will be finalized shortly...
>>>   There are quite a few features of 4.0 and 5.0 that would be quite
>>>   useful to this community, such as actor-oriented classes, the
>>>   dynamic dataflow (DDF) director, much better 3-D rendering actors
>>>   in the GR domain, lifecycle actors like ModelReference, etc.
>>>
>>> - Using the Windows installer, with all the defaults chosen, kepler
>>>   does not get put in the Start menu... Perhaps it should be by 
>>> default?
>>>
>>> - The first demo (EML 2) fails with:
>>>   ptolemy.kernel.util.IllegalActionException: Error parsing the eml 
>>> package: Exception in DataTypeResolver.
>>>
>>> - The demos are not well sized and placed for a standard laptop screen.
>>>   Displays pop up off screen, and the workflows spill over to the 
>>> right.
>>>   Also, some of them come up panned so that the whole demo is not 
>>> visible.
>>>
>>> - The third demo (GEON Map Workflow) gives: 
>>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>>>         at org.sdm.spa.WebService.fire(WebService.java:466)
>>>         at ptolemy.actor.AtomicActor.iterate(AtomicActor.java:266)
>>>        ...
>>>   This is probably because I was not on the net when I ran it,
>>>   but it seems there should be a friendlier error message...
>>>
>>> - Many of the plots are unlabeled (no title, no legend).
>>>
>>> - Some of the demos have no annotations.
>>>
>>> - The backprop model gives:
>>> java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no backprop in java.library.path
>>>         at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1517)
>>>         at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:788)
>>>
>>>
>>> Edward
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------
>>> Edward A. Lee
>>> Professor, Chair of the EE Division, Associate Chair of EECS
>>> 231 Cory Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
>>> phone: 510-642-0253 or 510-642-0455, fax: 510-642-2845
>>> eal at eecs.Berkeley.EDU, http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~eal
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> *******************************************************************
>> Dan Higgins                                  higgins at nceas.ucsb.edu
>> http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/    Ph: 805-893-5127
>> National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) Marine 
>> Science Building - Room 3405
>> Santa Barbara, CA 93195
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>
>
> ------------
> Edward A. Lee
> Professor, Chair of the EE Division, Associate Chair of EECS
> 231 Cory Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
> phone: 510-642-0253 or 510-642-0455, fax: 510-642-2845
> eal at eecs.Berkeley.EDU, http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~eal  

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