Re: [Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on \"Starting display...\" at startup

2010-08-19 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
I confirm what I wrote earlier : "starting with Jmol 12.0" Jmol 12.0 is compiled with Java 1.5 (so it requires 1.5 to run) and there's probably some code that really requires 1.5. But with Jmol 12.1, we have rewritten many things to take advantage of 1.5 new syntax (generics, annotations, ...) On

Re: [Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on \"Starting display...\" at startup

2010-08-19 Thread Robert Hanson
Well, that's an interesting question. What I believe we found is that we were using Java 1.5 methods prior to that and just didn't know it. So we were defacto requiring 1.5, I think. The test is if a person can start 12.0 and not 12.1, but I think these two(?) reports related to both of them. Bob

Re: [Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on \"Starting display...\" at startup

2010-08-19 Thread Angel Herráez
Shouldn't that read "starting Jmol 12.1" ? On 19 Aug 2010 at 8:56, Robert Hanson wrote: > > Let's get a prominent note to that effect in the files download page or > somewhere in the release > notes. Java 1.5 required. Nico, I am fully convinced this was a VERY good > idea, despite the fact

Re: [Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on \"Starting display...\" at startup

2010-08-19 Thread Robert Hanson
Let's get a prominent note to that effect in the files download page or somewhere in the release notes. Java 1.5 required. Nico, I am fully convinced this was a VERY good idea, despite the fact that some users will hit this snag. On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Nicolas Vervelle wrote: > Hi, > >

Re: [Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on \"Starting display...\" at startup

2010-08-19 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
Hi, Starting with Jmol 12.0, we decided to stop supporting Java versions before 1.5. Even 1.5 is not supported any more by Sun/Oracle, so it seems a reasonable choice. I don't think that you using Java 6, the second output is showing Java 1.4.0 as version... If I remember correctly, version 49.0

Re: [Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on \"Starting display...\" at startup

2010-08-19 Thread Angel Herráez
I am forwarding this to the list. On 18 Aug 2010 at 15:20, Sara Shi wrote: > Hi, sorry to bother you, but I couldn't post to the maillist yet. > > We have exactly the same problem (stucking at the splash screen) if we use > Jmol 12.0.6 and Java 1.6.0. Following the suggestions by Bob, we just t

Re: [Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on "Starting display..." at startup

2010-08-18 Thread Angel Herráez
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Tom Hammond wrote: > We are trying 12.0.6 but cannot get past the splash screen. Should we try > 12.1.x instead? Tom, comparing versions is just for tracking down the problem, in case it is a bug. But certainly 12.0.x should work too. It is working fi

Re: [Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on "Starting display..." at startup

2010-08-17 Thread Robert Hanson
..@uah.es] > Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 4:08 AM > To: jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on "Starting display..." at startup > > > Thanks for the fast reply! The same problem occurs whether I start JMOL > via > > the batch

Re: [Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on "Starting display..." at startup

2010-08-17 Thread Tom Hammond
, 2010 4:08 AM To: jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on "Starting display..." at startup > Thanks for the fast reply! The same problem occurs whether I start JMOL via > the batch file and/or JAR file. I am using the latest version downloa

Re: [Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on "Starting display..." at startup

2010-08-14 Thread Angel Herráez
> Thanks for the fast reply! The same problem occurs whether I start JMOL via > the batch file and/or JAR file. I am using the latest version downloaded > today from SourceForge.net. Tom, pleas quote version number. 12.0.x or 12.1.x ? There are two "latest" lines of releases. ---

Re: [Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on "Starting display..." at startup

2010-08-13 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
I am using the latest version downloaded > today from SourceForge.net. > > Thanks! > Tom > > > -Original Message- > From: Angel Herráez [mailto:angel.herr...@uah.es] > Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 1:57 PM > To: jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Jm

Re: [Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on "Starting display..." at startup

2010-08-13 Thread Tom Hammond
, August 13, 2010 1:57 PM To: jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on "Starting display..." at startup Hi Tom, and welcome to Jmol! Try executing (double-click) the Jmol.jar file I'm afraid the batch file is not often looked at. If there is a differen

Re: [Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on "Starting display..." at startup

2010-08-13 Thread Angel Herráez
Hi Tom, and welcome to Jmol! Try executing (double-click) the Jmol.jar file I'm afraid the batch file is not often looked at. If there is a difference, we will try to fix it. Also, please specify the version of Jmol you are testing.

[Jmol-users] JMOL stuck on "Starting display..." at startup

2010-08-13 Thread Hammond,Tom J
Hello, I am new to using JMOL. After unpacking the Zip file and running the JMOL batch file, the splash screen appears with "Starting display..." at the bottom. But it just stays there and does not start the program. Has anyone else had this problem and what was done to resolve it. I am ru