[udig-devel] Follow-up: UDIG 1.0.1 MacOS - can't relaunch unless former

[pvaziri@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

-----Original Message-----
From: William Kyngesburye [mailto:kyngchaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:33 AM
To: pvaziri@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: UDIG Mac OS question


Here's more that I worked out this morning:

- with an empty project - it starts up again

- with even just an empty map in the project - it will crash on  
startup with the AWT exception


On Aug 31, 2005, at 10:10 AM, pvaziri@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Thanks for verifying.  I'll go ahead and post the problem.
>
> All the best,
> Pete
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Kyngesburye [mailto:kyngchaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:32 PM
> To: pvaziri@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: UDIG Mac OS question
>
>
> ouch
>
> I haven't had much time to do serious testing.  My workspace had
> become oddly corrupted - I had deleted the project.udig folder.  In
> my tests for postgres connection I would add a layer (or try to) and
> delete the layer (assuming that a failed add would cause a crash next
> startup).
>
> When I left a layer in this time it failed (quietly) to save.  And
> still started up next time, with the project, but empty of maps and
> layers.  It turns out udig saves a list of projects in that
> hidden .metadata folder, and since I had deleted the project's
> folder, it couldn't save to it.
>
> Anyways, fixed all that (basically trashed workspace), added a map
> and layer, and quit (saved successfully).  Start udig, and bye bye
> udig - that AWT error.  Time for a bug report.  I think Paul Ramsey
> noticed a few issues also, maybe even that one, when he found a Mac
> to test it on.  uDig has a ways to go.
>
> bleh.
>
>
> On Aug 30, 2005, at 5:46 PM, pvaziri@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Basically I can run everything fine initially.  The opening screen
>> shows up
>> fine.  I can then usually load a base layer (e.g., USstates.shp)
>> and then
>> some other layers (I've tried both WFS and WMS successfully).  I
>> quit with
>> no negative feedback.  When I relaunch the application it attempts
>> to load
>> and then exits right away without any initial view.
>>
>> So, in my case, all I have in the ~home/Documents/Workspace/
>> project.udig...
>> folder are files that were generated from that project which
>> references only
>> a single shape file.  Once I delete, project.udig, then I can open
>> and work
>> with the application again.
>>
>> Are you saying that, you can restart UDIG without trashing the
>> workspace in
>> certain cases?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pete
>>
>> Pete Vaziri
>> Geospatial Website Administrator
>> 303-302-8551
>> pvaziri@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pvaziri@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: William Kyngesburye [mailto:kyngchaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:42 PM
>> To: pvaziri@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: UDIG Mac OS question
>>
>>
>> So far, if the project file is corrupted with a bad postgres
>> connection (or other corruption?  haven't done much testing yet to
>> see what else can go wrong), trashing it is all that has worked.  The
>> final 1.0.1 release should default to writing the workspace to your
>> home/Documents now (just checking that you're up to date).  If you
>> haven't done anything that you need to save, you could try trashing
>> the whole workspace just to be sure.
>>
>> By initial run, do you mean it shows your project window (or welcome
>> window)?
>>
>> On Aug 30, 2005, at 5:10 PM, pvaziri@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi William,
>>>
>>> Were you able to run udig on OS X without trashing the
>>> Workspace/project.udig folder?  I was able to reinstall Java on my
>>> computer,
>>> but udig is still not letting me open it passed the initial run.
>>>
>>>
>>
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>
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