using actors not in CLASSPATH

2006-09-08 Thread Christopher Brooks
I'm fairly certain you would need to have the actor in the classpath. It might be possible to define a custom ClassLoader that would have the actor in question in the classpath. However, things get tricky. We thought about using a custom URLClassLoader to help with reloading classes, see the "r

using actors not in CLASSPATH

2006-09-08 Thread Adriana Ricchiuti
Hi all, I have a problem. I need to instantiate actors not located in Ptolemy classPath. I tried using vergil menu' Graph->Instantiate Entity, setting the field "Location (URL)" with the actor's path. It seems to work only with Xml actors. It doesn't work with Java actors (*.class) and with any