Java Miscellaneous: java 2D API Graphics?demorunner bug?

• proubekas / 300 / Tues, 26 Jan 2010 09:08:00 GMT / Comments (6)
• I just bought the book java 2D API Graphics?by Vincent J. Hardy. I am having a problem running the emorunner?GUI application. The error message I get for all the examples is could not start Demo: Create Process: runsnippet xxx error=2?where xxx is the demo I am trying to run. If I invoke the command line unsnippet?for the examples it works. I have tried a 1.3 and a 1.4 JVM same error. Unlike most books this one does not seem to have a web site. Has anyone else run into this problem?
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• 1. Running under WinME I start demorunner.bat, get a file tree of demo programs, click on one of them and get:Could not start demo: CreateProcess: runsnippet HelloRenderingModel error=0So yes, the same thing happens to me to. I've checked my paths and they seem OK.Dane

     east75th | Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:40:00 GMT |

  2. I found a page on the web for the book.

     http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/Books/2dgraphics/

     Unfortunately the new .jar does not fix the problem we are having. I am on Windows 2000. What are you using? What gets me steamed is that the readme.txt in the updated .jar has two of the author's email addresses. But when I try to send him a email it gets rejected on both of them. The error is "unknown user". How unhelpfull can one get? It's one thing to not help me debug my own code, which I am sure so people have tried to get Vincent to do, but it another thing entirely to ask him to fix his own bugs.

     proubekas | Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:40:00 GMT |

  3. Are you referring to the OS? I'm using WinME.

     Because it's the only learning resource for 2D graphics, you'd think Sun would have posted a fix long ago.

     What irks me about the 2D support is that it's weak on operating on the individual color channels (LookupOp.filter() works only on all three) and the few types of graphics files (jpg and GIF only) supported.

     east75th | Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:40:00 GMT |

  4. I had the same problems but actually managed to get a reply back from Vincent Hardy - he sent me an updated batch file for Win 2000 - but it still gives the same problems!

     johnjsmith | Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:40:00 GMT |

  5. John J. Smith

     Would you be willing to post the fix to this thread? Maybe, just maybe, I can compare what Vincent sent you, and what is on the CD, and the Web updates, and try to figure out what fix Vincent was trying to implement. If I can figure that out, maybe I can find where the fix goes wrong and fix the fix! I would then post it in this thread for the good of all.

     TIA

     proubekas | Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:40:00 GMT |

  6. No problem. Here's what Vincent sent me (demorunner.bat):

     java -classpath .;c:\glf\glf.jar DemoRunner

     demos.properties

     ================

     script.Windows_2000=runsnippet.bat

     script.Windows_NT=runsnippet.bat

     script.Windows_95=runsnippet.bat

     script.Windows_98=runsnippet.bat

     script.Windows_Me=runsnippet.bat

     script.Windows_XP=runsnippet.bat

     All_Demos=Part_I Part_II Part_III

     Part_I=Chapter_01 Chapter_02 Chapter_03 Chapter_04 Chapter_05

     Chapter_01=HelloRenderingModel

     Chapter_02=ShapeRendering SimpleTextRendering SimpleTextLayoutRendering

     ImageLoad FontAttribute CompositeAttribute AffineTransformAttribute

     StrokeAttribute PaintAttribute RenderingHintsAttribute ClipAttribute

     Chapter_03=ScreenRendering PrinterRendering OffscreenBufferRendering

     Chapter_04=ShapeUsage ShapeClasses DukeShapeDemo CMYKSave ImageFilters

     StyledTextRendering JustifiedTextBlock CustomGlyphLayout

     Chapter_05=AffineTransformTypes BasicStrokeControls PaintTypes

     ColorTransparency TexturePaintControls FontLister FontFlip

     AlphaCompositeRules ClippingUsage

     Part_II=Chapter_06 Chapter_07 Chapter_08 Chapter_09

     Chapter_06=HelloLayers

     Chapter_07=UsingLayers LayerMarginsUsage AnchorPlacement

     AdjustedAnchorPlacement AnchorPlacementTransform EiffelFill EiffelStroke

     EiffelComposite TextLayerControls ImagePlacement HelloLayersReuse

     CombiningLayers

     Chapter_08=UsingCompositionComponent

     Chapter_09=GradientPaintExtUsage RadialGradientPaintUsage

     RadialGradientPaintExtUsage CompositeStrokeUsage ControlStrokeUsage

     ShapeStrokeUsage WaveStrokeUsage TextStrokeUsage ColorCompositeUsage

     LightOpUsage1 LightOpUsage2 LightOpUsage3 SpotLightUsage LightOpUsage4

     ElevationMapUsage LightOpUsage5 GetSunLightUsage GetSpotLightUsage

     GetLightRampUsage GetHotSpotLightRampUsage ToneAdjustmentOpUsage

     WaveTransformUsage BumpTransformUsage

     Part_III=Chapter_11 Chapter_12 Chapter_13 Chapter_14 Chapter_15

     Chapter_16 Chapter_17

     Chapter_11=ImageDropShadowComposition ShadowsComposition

     ShapeCastShadowComposition TextRecessedShadowComposition

     Chapter_12=BacklitGlowMenuComposition BacklitGlowMenuCompositionOff

     NeonGlowMenuComposition NeonGlowMenuCompositionCold

     Chapter_13=LightPaintingComposition

     Chapter_14=CircularLayoutComposition TriangularLayoutComposition

     ShapeLayoutComposition GlyphDecorationComposition

     Chapter_15=PostCardComposition

     Chapter_16=BarComposition CylinderComposition SphereComposition

     VolumeComposition

     Chapter_17=BrushedMetal RecessedShadow ShadowStandOut GLFWebDemoTwo

     GLFWebDemoOne TextFlowers SoftFocus SunSet ShapeSplatter LookupParts

     Lights

     AffineTransformAttribute.exec=imageSnippet

     AffineTransformTypes.exec=noArguments

     AlphaCompositeRules.exec=noArguments

     BasicStrokeControls.exec=noArguments

     ClipAttribute.exec=noArguments

     ClippingUsage.exec=imageSnippet

     CMYKSave.exec=cmykSave

     CMYKSave.params=vango09CMYK.jpg true

     ColorTransparency.exec=colorTransparency

     CompositeAttribute.exec=imageSnippet

     CustomGlyphLayout.exec=glyphLayoutSnippet

     DukeShapeDemo.exec=noArguments

     FontAttribute.exec=noArguments

     FontFlip.exec=noArguments

     FontLister.exec=noArguments

     FontTransform.exec=noArguments

     HelloRenderingModel.exec=noArguments

     ImageFilters.exec=imageSnippet

     ImageLoad.exec=imageSnippet

     JustifiedTextBlock.exec=textBlock

     OffscreenBufferRendering.exec=offscreenSnippet

     OffscreenBufferRendering.params=vangoWithBorder.jpg

     PaintAttribute.exec=noArguments

     PaintTypes.exec=imageSnippet

     PrinterRendering.exec=imageSnippet

     RenderingHintsAttribute.exec=noArguments

     ScreenRendering.exec=imageSnippet

     ShapeClasses.exec=noArguments

     ShapeRendering.exec=noArguments

     ShapeUsage.exec=noArguments

     SimpleTextLayoutRendering.exec=noArguments

     SimpleTextRendering.exec=noArguments

     StrokeAttribute.exec=noArguments

     StyledTextRendering.exec=fontSnippet

     TexturePaintControls.exec=textureSnippet

     rem

     rem Part II code samples

     rem

     rem Chapter 1

     HelloLayers.exec=compositionFactory

     rem Chapter 2

     UsingLayers.exec=textCompositionFactory

     LayerMarginsUsage.exec=compositionFactory

     AnchorPlacement.exec=anchorPlacement

     AdjustedAnchorPlacement.exec=anchorPlacement

     AnchorPlacementTransform.exec=anchorPlacement

     EiffelFill.exec=noArguments

     EiffelStroke.exec=noArguments

     EiffelComposite.exec=noArguments

     TextLayerControls.exec=textCompositionFactory

     ImagePlacement.exec=textCompositionFactory

     HelloLayersReuse.exec=compositionFactory

     CombiningLayers.exec=textCompositionFactory

     rem Chapter 3

     UsingCompositionComponent.exec=noArguments

     rem Chapter 4

     GradientPaintExtUsage.exec=noArguments

     RadialGradientPaintUsage.exec=noArguments

     RadialGradientPaintExtUsage.exec=noArguments

     CompositeStrokeUsage.exec=noArguments

     ControlStrokeUsage.exec=noArguments

     ShapeStrokeUsage.exec=noArguments

     WaveStrokeUsage.exec=noArguments

     TextStrokeUsage.exec=noArguments

     ColorCompositeUsage.exec=colorCompositeUsage

     LightOpUsage1.exec=imageSnippet

     LightOpUsage2.exec=imageSnippet

     LightOpUsage3.exec=lightOpUsage3

     SpotLightUsage.exec=compositionFactory

     LightOpUsage4.exec=lightOpUsage4

     ElevationMapUsage.exec=textCompositionFactory

     LightOpUsage5.exec=lightOpUsage5

     GetSunLightUsage.exec=textCompositionFactory

     GetSpotLightUsage.exec=textCompositionFactory

     GetLightRampUsage.exec=textCompositionFactory

     GetHotSpotLightRampUsage.exec=textCompositionFactory

     ToneAdjustmentOpUsage.exec=textCompositionFactory

     WaveTransformUsage.exec=noArguments

     BumpTransformUsage.exec=noArguments

     rem

     rem Part III code samples

     rem

     rem Chapter 2

     ImageDropShadowComposition.exec=ch2TextCompositionFactory

     ShadowsComposition.exec=ch2TextCompositionFactory

     ShapeCastShadowComposition.exec=ch2TextCompositionFactory

     TextRecessedShadowComposition.exec=ch2TextCompositionFactory

     rem Chapter 3

     BacklitGlowMenuComposition.exec=ch3TextCompositionFactory

     BacklitGlowMenuCompositionOff.exec=ch3TextCompositionFactory

     NeonGlowMenuComposition.exec=ch3TextCompositionFactory

     NeonGlowMenuCompositionCold.exec=ch3TextCompositionFactory

     rem Chapter 4

     LightPaintingComposition.exec=ch4TextCompositionFactory

     rem Chapter 5

     CircularLayoutComposition.exec=ch5TextCompositionFactory

     TriangularLayoutComposition.exec=ch5TextCompositionFactory

     ShapeLayoutComposition.exec=ch5TextCompositionFactory

     GlyphDecorationComposition.exec=ch5TextCompositionFactory

     rem Chapter 6

     PostCardComposition.exec=ch6TextCompositionFactory

     rem Chapter 7

     BarComposition.exec=ch7TextCompositionFactory

     CylinderComposition.exec=ch7TextCompositionFactory

     SphereComposition.exec=ch7TextCompositionFactory

     VolumeComposition.exec=ch7TextCompositionFactory

     noArguments=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.snippets.%SNIPPET%

     offscreenSnippet=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.snippets.%SNIPPET% res/images/snippets/vango09.jpg %2%

     imageSnippet=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.snippets.%SNIPPET% res/images/snippets/vango09.jpg

     textureSnippet=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.snippets.%SNIPPET% res/images/snippets/texture.jpg

     colorTransparency=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.snippets.%SNIPPET% res/images/snippets/syberia30.jpg

     cmykSave=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.snippets.CMYKSave res/misc/cmyk.pf

     res/images/snippets/vango09.jpg %2% true

     fontSnippet=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.snippets.%SNIPPET% serif 30

     glyphLayoutSnippet=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.snippets.%SNIPPET% serif CrossWords

     textBlock=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.snippets.JustifiedTextBlock res/text/apidoc.txt serif 30

     500

     ch2TextCompositionFactory=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.util.CompositionStudio

     res/com/sun/glf/beans/ch2/%SNIPPET%.ser.txt

     ch3TextCompositionFactory=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.util.CompositionStudio

     res/com/sun/glf/beans/ch3/%SNIPPET%.ser.txt

     ch4TextCompositionFactory=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.util.CompositionStudio

     res/com/sun/glf/beans/ch4/%SNIPPET%.ser.txt

     ch5TextCompositionFactory=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.util.CompositionStudio

     res/com/sun/glf/beans/ch5/%SNIPPET%.ser.txt

     ch6TextCompositionFactory=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.util.CompositionStudio

     res/com/sun/glf/beans/ch6/%SNIPPET%.ser.txt

     ch7TextCompositionFactory=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.util.CompositionStudio

     res/com/sun/glf/beans/ch7/%SNIPPET%.ser.txt

     textCompositionFactory=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.util.CompositionStudio

     res/com/sun/glf/beans/%SNIPPET%.ser.txt

     compositionFactory=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.util.CompositionStudio com.sun.glf.snippets.%SNIPPET%

     anchorPlacement=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.snippets.%SNIPPET% res/images/snippets/syberia84.jpg

     colorCompositeUsage=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.snippets.%SNIPPET% res/images/snippets/vango09.jpg 255 0 0

     lightOpUsage3=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.snippets.%SNIPPET% res/images/snippets/vango09.jpg 1.5

     res/images/snippets/elevationMap.jpg

     lightOpUsage4=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.snippets.%SNIPPET% doNotUseFile 4

     res/images/snippets/elevationMap.jpg

     lightOpUsage5=java -Dcom.sun.glf.getAllFonts=true

     com.sun.glf.snippets.%SNIPPET% res/images/snippets/elevationMap.jpg

     johnjsmith | Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:40:00 GMT |