Re: [OpenMap Users] no display from HelloWorld example, OpenMap 4.6

From: Don Dietrick <dietrick_at_bbn.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:19:23 -0400

On Aug 20, 2004, at 3:05 PM, Bob Stine wrote:

> Don:
>  
> Thanks for your reply.
>  
> I did as you suggested, and got precisely the same results I
> originally reported: the program seems to run fine, but no window gets
> displayed.  
>  
> What OS and what version JVM are you running? 

Windows 2000 Professional, and jdk 1.4.2_03

>
> My original approach to get the script to run was to copy the
> hello-world.bat file to <OPENMAP_HOME>\bin, and then run the batch
> file from the bin directory. 
>
> When running from JBuilder, I had the IDE copy HelloWorld.properties
> into the com/bbn/openmap/examples/hello directory under the "classes"
> output directory.

Yep.

>  In both cases, this just makes it possible for the program to find
> the HelloWorld properties file.  But even when it does, I get not GUI
> window. 
>  
> In other words, the console output is:
>  
> D:\software\OpenMap\openmap
> -4.6\src\openmap\com\bbn\openmap\examples\hello>hello-world
> Creating MapHandler
> Creating MapBean
> OpenMap(tm) Version 4.6
>   Copyright (C) BBNT Solutions LLC.  All rights reserved.
>   See http://openmap.bbn.com/ for details.
> Adding MouseEvent support...
> Creating ToolPanel...
> Creating Layers...
> Done creating...

Hmm. I guess I would look at the main function of HelloWorld to see of
pack() and show() got called. Maybe an exception is being thrown and
caught quietly...

- Don


> but nothing happens.
>
> Don Dietrick <dietrick_at_bbn.com> wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> I got it to run by changing directories to the
> src\openmap\com\bbn\openmap\examples\hello directory, modifying the
> hello-world.bat file so the OPENMAP_HOME path variable pointed to the
> top-level openmap directory, and then running hello-world.bat from
> there.
>
> If you want to get SimpleMap2 to work as expected, you can change line
> 76 from
>
> MapPanel mapPanel = new BasicMapPanel();
>
> to
>
> MapPanel mapPanel = new BasicMapPanel(new
> PropertyHandler(new Properties()));
>
> The 'simple' scripts should be launched from their simple directory,
> too.
>
> - Don
>
> On Aug 20, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Bob Stine wrote:
>
> > I've just downloaded OpenMap 4.6 and I'm trying to work through the
> > examples. I'm running on XP, java version 1.4.2_03.
> >
> > The problem I'm having with the HelloWorld example is! that it never
> > displays the JFrame. Console output looks like:
> >
> > D:\software\OpenMap\openmap-4.6\bin>hello-world.bat
> > Creating MapHandler
> > Creating MapBean
> > OpenMap(tm) Version 4.6
> > Copyright (C) BBNT Solutions LLC. All rights reserved.
> > See http://openmap.bbn.com/ for details.
> >
> > Adding MouseEvent support...
> > Creating ToolPanel...
> > Creating Layers...
> > Done creating...
> >
> >
> > but at this point the JVM hangs.
> >
> > From the debugger, the "setVisible(true)" method returned
> > successfully... everything seems to work fine, except that there is
> no
> > display. 
> >
> > The SimpleMap example works; the SimpleMap2 more or less works (at
> > least it displays).
> >
> > Any idea where to start on this?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ___
> > Bob Stine
> > bob_at_waltonstine.net
> >! "Let's roll!"  Todd Beamer, UA flight 93
> >
>
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Don Dietrick, dietrick_at_bbn.com
> BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
>
>
> ___
> Bob Stine
> bob_at_waltonstine.net
> "Let's roll!"  Todd Beamer, UA flight 93
>


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Don Dietrick, dietrick_at_bbn.com
BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA
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