I downloaded a copy of JBuilder Personal Edition 7 to my son's PC last night, and have been working with it (I can only get to that machine while he's asleep, unfortunately).
The Personal Edition has a couple of limitations that I didn't know about. I think I understand some of them now, though there's still one that needs a workaround.
I've also updated the page on compiling with some instructions on how to get and use CVS. _Please_ do that; this method of passing .zip files, etc, is just not reliable enough to be worth the time.
So the steps I recommend are:
Install CVS - for links, etc please see
Check out a copy of the "jbuilder" module:
create a "project folder"
do the checkout (see the instructions at the link above)
start jbuilder with the jmri.jpx file in the java
folder you just created.
There's one remaining problem, that I hope Alex or somebody can resolve. The personal version of JBuilder apparently gets confused if you have multiple programs to build. So you have to tell it which one to run:
Using the file/folder tree at the upper left, navigate
apps -> DecoderPro -> DecoderPro.java
(or which ever app you want to run, e.g. JMRIdemo.java, LocoTools.java)
Double click that file; it will open to the right.
Right-click on the "DecoderPro" tab at the top of the right
window. (Click would select this, right-click or control-click
brings up a menu)
From the pop-up menu, select "Run".
This tells it that you want to build & run _that_ program, which it then does.
All of the above works for me now. Hopefully it will work for you, and we can resolve the need for that last "click-click-right-click" workaround shortly.
Bob
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Bob Jacobsen