Re: [Swarm-Support] Swarm on windows; (may be this is obsolete question)

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Suman Kanuganti wrote:

> I am trying to get swarm working on windows; I
> downloaded windows version of swarm from
> ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/binaries/w32/ . I also
> downloaded jheatbugs and tried to make it, it was done
> and when I ran >javaswarm StartHeatbugs I get the
> ProcCtrl and just hangs, the program wont start and it
> wont respond, I have to force quit it.
I guess you are talking about pretest 8?  If not, get that.  2.1.1 is 
not supported, and is obsolete with regard to compatibility with new 
Cygwin and Sun JDK.  If so, perhaps the symptoms you see are different 
on your system for some reason.   You can try to make it work by adding a
"Globals.env.updateDisplay ()" after "pack" calls and perhaps other GUI 
calls.  Figuring out where is a matter of tracking the setup of 
HeatbugModelSwarm and HeatbugObserverSwarm either using jdb or 
System.out.println -- moving forward until it hangs or exits (add the 
updateDisplay call at that point).  Also, with Sun JDK 1.4.1_04 I've had 
problems reading the swarm.jar file (of all things).  Unpacking it and 
using a CLASSPATH to the unpacked directory (the directory above 
"swarm") may also be needed.