At 5:42 PM -0700 6/28/02, Jerry Drews wrote:
As you must have suspected, my machines did not have the Java software
installed.
Actually, I thought that the installer was checking for the presence of Java, and would have mentioned if it didn't find it. Since it hadn't, I was a little confused.
But one can never really overestimate the subtlety of Windows. There are apparently some Windows systems that come with _part_ of Java. That was enough to fool my simple test, while still confusing the rest of the installer and probably not letting the program run.
I've beefed-up the checking, and added some error handling. Hopefully the new version will work better. Sorry for the extra work.
Having done this, I re-ran the install and it seemed to complete correctly.
When I clicked on the DecoderPro icon on the desktop, it blinks, but nothing
seems to happen.
If I execute "decoder pro" from within a command prompt defaulted to the
d:\program files\jmri folder, I get the user interface which looks
reasonable. I am not connected to my railroad now. The program interface
seems to work o.k. When I quit, the command prompt window contains:
...
.DecoderPro
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
jmri.jmrit.symbolicprog.CombinedLocoSelListPane.setDecoderSelectionFr
omLoco(CombinedLocoSelListPane.java:233)
Those are real bugs in that version; the first problem is the fault of the installer, and the second one was in the code itself. They are hopefully now fixed in the new upload, thanks for the detailed info.
Bob
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