[sw-l] SignWriter Tiger alpha release needs testing...

[Stuart Thiessen]

Thanks, Daniel!  I am very eager to see how your new program will work.
I am using a Mac Powerbook laptop. I am running 10.3.9. I did try it in
Virtual PC (Windows XP) and I get the opening screen, but nothing else
comes up as of yet. I am running Java 5.0 Update 3.

Under the OS X environment, I get this box.

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In the console log, I see the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError:
signwriter/display/SignWriterTiger (Unsupported major.minor version
49.0)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
	at
java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)

I wonder if this is the same kind of error Trevor is getting on Linux
or is it different?

Thanks,

Stuart

On May 16, 2005, at 13:23, Bill Reese wrote:

> I downloaded SignWriter Tiger and couldn't get past the opening blurb.
>  I updated from Java 5.0.2 to 5.0.3 but it didn't make any difference.
>  I had to stop the process javaw.exe to get rid of the blurb.
>
> My OS is Windows XP Pro, running on a Gigabyte motherboard with 2.4
> gig Intel 4 cpu, 1 gig RAM, 80 gig RAID 0 hard-drive configuration,
> ATI 9550 ADP graphics card.  I don't allow Active X controls.
>
> Is there anything in Windows XP Pro that I specifically need to enable
> to make it work?
>
> Bill
>
>
> Valerie Sutton wrote:
>
>> SignWriting List
>> May 16, 2005
>>
>> Dear SW List, and software developers...
>> Daniel Noelpp, the developer of SignWriter Tiger, has informed me
>> that there is an alpha release of SignWriter Tiger available for
>> testing. Daniel has requested that we make a list of items to test
>> and that we all test it for those exact same features, to see if
>> these features work, on several different computers...So if there are
>> others on the SignWriting List who wish to test it with me, we can
>> try to coordinate our efforts. I need to rest now, as I have been ill
>> again....so for this moment....you might want to read about it below.
>> And Daniel, THANK YOU, for all your hard work. We are grateful to
>> you...
>>
>> SignWriter Tiger Development
>> http://www.signwriter.org/
>>
>> SignWriter Tiger on SourceForge
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/swj
>>     What is the SignWriter?
>> It is a program to edit SignWriting texts.
>>
>> "SignWriter Tiger" is the new SignWriter program and follows
>> "SignWriter DOS". It is still in development. Please see the paper
>> "Development of a new 'SignWriter' Program" for the conference in
>> Lisbon end of May 2004:
>>
>> http://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/lisbon/lisbon08.html
>>
>> And At the First European SignWriting Symposium in Brussels July 2005
>> SignWriter Tiger will be presented, too.
>>
>> http://signwriting.org/symposium/2005/
>>
>> May 16th 2005 is the first public release of executables and source
>> code on SourceForge. Developers who know SignWriting and Java Tiger
>> are still welcome to participate. The software runs under any Java
>> Tiger (Java 5.0) installation, but is still very alpha. Users are
>> welcome to experiment with the software and complain about missing
>> features and bugs (but politely, please :-).
>>
>> Download SignWriter Tiger!
>> We are sorry but as of now (May 16th 2005) SignWriter Tiger only runs
>> on Windows machines with Java 5.0 installed. Mac OS X users will have
>> to wait a few more days. A hack with
>> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5/Home/bin/
>> java -jar SignWriterTiger_alpha01.jar
>> only resulted in an VerifyError. I am going to investigate this
>> problem in a few days.
>>
>> Licenses and Development Model
>> SignWriter Tiger is being developed under an Open Source license,
>> namely the Artistic License. It is the same license used for the
>> development of the Perl programming language. You don't have to buy
>> the software. It is Open Source.
>>
>> SignWriter Tiger is a SourceForge project, too. SourceForge.net is
>> the world's largest Open Source software development website, with
>> the largest repository of Open Source code and applications available
>> on the Internet. SourceForge.net provides free services to Open
>> Source developers.
>>
>> Daniel Noelpp
>> d.noelpp at gmx.ch
>> Moos Switzerland
>> Sun, 15 May 2005 17:20:20 GMT
>>
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