[kepler-dev] Kepler alpha7
Christopher Brooks
cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu
Thu Jul 14 09:11:17 PDT 2005
Edward wrote:
> I downloaded the Kepler release as a .exe file, and put it in
> c:/kepler. When I run the kepler executable, I get toolbar icons
> from Ptolemy II version 3.0.2. Any idea why?
I downloaded the Kepler installer yesterday when I was on campus and
had a fast net connection. I get the Ptolemy II 5.0-beta tool bar.
Just to be clear:
In Ptolemy II 3.0, we have Z's for the zoom butons.
In Ptolemy II 5.0, we have magnifying glasses.
You wrote:
> The toolbar icons are from version 3.0 and the utilities and actor
> libraries are from version 3.0
For me, under Kepler, the utilities are not immediately visible.
For example, I had to go to Actors -> Constants -> Documentation
to see the Annotation.
Are you getting the old configuration where Utilities are immediately
visible when you start up? Do you see the Quick Search Window on
the left?
I would try the following:
1) Check your environment settings and unset PTII, reboot and restart
Kepler
2) Send us a screenshot. Probably a gif would be smaller than a
bmp. On the HP, do Alt-Fn-PrtScr to copy the image and then paste
it in to Paint, save as a gif and send it out.
BTW - One note is that when I installed Kepler it wanted to update
c:/Windows/system32/libexpat.dll. Why is this? Is there any other way
so as to avoid updating files in the Windows directory?
_Christopher
Dan wrote:
> 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
>
> ------
>
> 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
> >> *******************************************************************
> >
> >
> > ------------
> > 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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