Issue 17 in datasoul: Does not open in Windows 8

[data...@googlecode.com]

Status: New
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Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium

New issue 17 by rbckidsm...@gmail.com: Does not open in Windows 8
http://code.google.com/p/datasoul/issues/detail?id=17

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.I click on the Icon and get the desktop
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The expected outcome is for the program to open

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Datasoul 2.0v1 on Windows 8

Please provide any additional information below.

[data...@googlecode.com]

Comment #1 on issue 17 by samuelme...@gmail.com: Does not open in Windows 8
http://code.google.com/p/datasoul/issues/detail?id=17

Which java version do you have installed?

[data...@googlecode.com]

Comment #2 on issue 17 by machad...@gmail.com: Does not open in Windows 8
http://code.google.com/p/datasoul/issues/detail?id=17

Dear Samuel,

I'm also having this same issue.

I have the latest Java installed (1.7.0_11).

Best regards,

[data...@googlecode.com]

Comment #3 on issue 17 by samuelme...@gmail.com: Does not open in Windows 8
http://code.google.com/p/datasoul/issues/detail?id=17

I do not have a windows 8 machine to try it right now,
Can you please collect some more diagnostics for us? Try to open the icon
properties and copy the command line (should be something begining
with "javaw"). Then open a command prompt, change to datasoul directory and
paste the copied command. It should print out some additional information
on why it does not open, please send this output for us.

I think for next version it would be a good idea to have some logging
mechanism by default...

[Douglas Machado]

Dear Samuel,

I have fixed it.

The icon target was pointing to:

%SystemRoot%/system32/javaw.exe -Xmx512m -jar datasoul.jar

I've just changed to:

javaw -Xmx512m -jar datasoul.jar

And it WORKED!!!! ;-)

Many thanks for your help.

Douglas

[Peter Sahlin]

Had the same problem, a new Windows8 computer and the "block" for Datasoul om "Start" got me to the desktop. There I had another shortcut for Datasoul which started the programme.

To change the "block" in "Start" I right-klicked on the "block" and choose "Open filepath". Rightklicking again on the Datasoul shortcut and choosing "Preferences" gave me the filepath like Douglas said. But to make it work I had to search for the javaw.exe and write the path: ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe" -Xmx512m -jar datasoul.jar".

And now both the shortcuts works, both on "Start" and on the Desktop.

(Hope I got the English words correct, I translated from Swedish)

Peter Sahlin