First spin, files in home dir

[Marc Rousseau]

Downloaded and tried out the application, which I had seen in alpha
during an early summer visit.

Great job everyone!

I am using Linux (Ubuntu and OpenSuSe), and it works great on both
systems.

However, at each launch it creates a bunch of files in my home dir:

liblwjgl64.so
liblwjgl.jnilib
liblwjgl.so
lwjgl.dll
wbc.properties

Even if the app is launched from another dir...
Can't find where to re-config this... I prefer to keep things tidy.

Any hint?

Thanks,

Marc

--
Marc-Etienne Rousseau
System Architect, CBRAIN Project
Montreal Neurological Institute
McGill University

[Stephen Larson]

Hi Marc,

   Thanks for giving it a spin.  Glad you are liking it.  Right now this is the default behavior and we haven't built a way to switch this off yet (bad us!).  I have created a new bug report for you at wholebrain.googlecode.com: http://code.google.com/p/wholebrain/issues/detail?id=369

   As you go through, if you find other issues, you may want to file them as bugs there as well.  In addition, we have brand new developers forums available at: http://wholebrain.forumsplace.com

Cheers,

   Stephen

[Christopher]

This MIGHT work, mileage may vary.

Since you are running Linux, you may be technicly inclined to try
executing the jnlp file manually. Instead of auto-launching it through
your web browser.
You may be able to modify your browser's settings to tell it to run
webstart from a different working directory

1. Save the .jnlp file to your hard drive. (Right-click Save Link
As...)
2. Open a command prompt and navigate to the location of the file
3. Execute the jnlp file, "javaws WholeBrainCatalog.jnlp"

[Marc Rousseau]

That's right Christopher,
This workaround does work.

I had the file on my disk already, but I was launching it by clicking
and did not notice it was handled by JavaWebStart.

Manual launch results in the files being created in the invocation
directory.

Marc

[Reimitch]

Hello everybody!

I also gave the application a first try and found the following
concerning the libraries:
The libraries seem to get extracted to the directory you start the
java web start from (which is your user home directory if you just
click on it in the browser) and this seems to lead to some problems...
For me, if I start from the directory the jnlp file is located in (cd /
my/folder javaws WholeBrainCatalog.jnlp), it works just fine. If I
try it from another directory however (javaws my/folder/
WholeBrainCatalog.jnlp) I get an unsatisfied link error and as a
result there is no progress after the "loading user interface" step.
Same if I start the code from eclipse: libraries are extracted to the
project root directory and can not be found (unsatisfied link error)
unless I specify the project root as java.library.path using the -
Djava.library.path virtual machine argument. Maybe info on this last
workaround should be added to the wiki for people that run into the
same problem..?