[JPP-Devel] MultiInputDialog is a jack of all trades device

2012-01-19 Thread Benjamin Gudehus
Hi! MultiInputDialog is what we call in germany an eierlegende Wollmilchsau (lit. an egg laying wool-milk-sow, engl. jack of all trades device). I really like the concept; and MultiInputDialog is very usable in terms of creating dialogs for plugins easily. But it hides to much of the underlayout

Re: [JPP-Devel] Nightly builds content

2012-01-19 Thread edgar . soldin
On 19.01.2012 08:58, Michaël Michaud wrote: Hi, I think the hamcrest-core-1.1.jar can also be removed from the binary distributions. Can you confirm Benjamin ? seems to be introduced as junit dependency. let's kick it for distro packages. Can't remember which plugin/extension needs

Re: [JPP-Devel] MultiInputDialog is a jack of all trades device

2012-01-19 Thread Michaël Michaud
Hi, MultiInputDialog is what we call in germany an eierlegende Wollmilchsau (lit. an egg laying wool-milk-sow, engl. jack of all trades device). I really like the concept; and MultiInputDialog is very usable in terms of creating dialogs for plugins easily. But it hides to much of the

[JPP-Devel] new installer prototype, call for testers

2012-01-19 Thread edgar . soldin
hi all, i've been working on a new installer for openjump for a while now. the preliminary result will be available from now on in the snapshot folder http://sourceforge.net/projects/jump-pilot/files/OpenJUMP_snapshots there is and will be an installer for both editions CORE and PLUS. currently

Re: [JPP-Devel] new installer prototype, call for testers

2012-01-19 Thread Giuseppe Aruta
Hi Ede, very nice installer. I gave a try right now. The installer works fine with Ubuntu. The software is correctly installed. There are three problems: - oj_linux.sh is not set to executable. So users cannot launch OpenJUMP until they manually set the launcher script to executable - OpenJUMP

Re: [JPP-Devel] OJ Linux GUI bug?

2012-01-19 Thread Matthias Scholz
Hi Peppe, Ede and the other developers, I've tested on a Ubuntu 11.10 with OpenJDK and get the same problem. In summary I can say, that on all tested systems the problem exists :-( It did no matter what desktop (KDE, Gnome, Unity) or what JRE (Sun Java 1.6/1.7 or OpenJDK) you are using. In the

Re: [JPP-Devel] OJ Linux GUI bug?

2012-01-19 Thread Michaël Michaud
Wow, good catch ! Bugs related to jvm are so difficult to find and to fix or to workaround Thanks, Michaël Le 19/01/2012 21:46, Matthias Scholz a écrit : Hi Peppe, Ede and the other developers, I've tested on a Ubuntu 11.10 with OpenJDK and get the same problem. In summary I can say, that

Re: [JPP-Devel] new installer prototype, call for testers

2012-01-19 Thread Michaël Michaud
Hi Ede, Izpack installer looks very nice :o) I like it ! However, I did not succeed in launching jump after installation :-( After many tries, I found this is the batch again, not the installer. There is a problem with parenthesis now. You know : C:\Program Files (x86) the directory where x86

Re: [JPP-Devel] new installer prototype, call for testers

2012-01-19 Thread edgar . soldin
On 19.01.2012 23:03, Michaël Michaud wrote: Hi Ede, Izpack installer looks very nice :o) I like it ! good to hear However, I did not succeed in launching jump after installation :-( After many tries, I found this is the batch again, not the installer. There is a problem with parenthesis

Re: [JPP-Devel] new installer prototype, call for testers

2012-01-19 Thread Stefan Steiniger
yeah .. I agree, we should introduce sections. If we need to tell the user where to change what settings, s/he is not going to find the arguments anymore ;) just had something like that last week but anyway, thanks Ede for automatizing all the processes, something I wished for many years.

Re: [JPP-Devel] new installer prototype, call for testers

2012-01-19 Thread Stefan Steiniger
actually, I am not talking about moving functionality, but introducing visual separators. Maybe section headers? but at the end its just my 2 cents On 19/01/2012 3:57 PM, Stefan Steiniger wrote: yeah .. I agree, we should introduce sections. If we need to tell the user where to change what

Re: [JPP-Devel] new installer prototype, call for testers

2012-01-19 Thread edgar . soldin
On 19.01.2012 15:23, Giuseppe Aruta wrote: Hi Ede, very nice installer. I gave a try right now. the first, as usual ;) The installer works fine with Ubuntu. The software is correctly installed. There are three problems: - oj_linux.sh is not set to executable. So users cannot launch OpenJUMP

Re: [JPP-Devel] new installer prototype, call for testers

2012-01-19 Thread edgar . soldin
On 19.01.2012 23:57, Stefan Steiniger wrote: yeah .. I agree, we should introduce sections. If we need to tell the user where to change what settings, s/he is not going to find the arguments anymore ;) all settings are on top and commented properly, everything below is logic just had

Re: [JPP-Devel] new installer prototype, call for testers

2012-01-19 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hei Ede, so, I tested on my MacOSX at home and it works very well. The only issue was that the splash screen image was standing on its side.. but I guess that's the same for the other OS? And well, two things that is also uncommon for Mac is that a) you need to double click on the jar file to