[Database-viewer-betatesters] Re: Data Manipulator needs Project Manager.

[Clayburn J. <cla...@ya...>]

--- Marc Noon <noo...@ya...> wrote:

> Clayburn Juniel,
>  
>Clayburn, can you give me the extraction procedure
for the latest >data manipulator?  Also a short intro
on how it works on Mac, >Windows, Linux, and any other
system would be helpful.  I just want >to make a
little chart that will help users, developers, and
beta testers >to quickly see how to use the product.
 
>Help me understand how a beta tester will use your
product if he only >has one hour.


> I want to try and run this app on my computer (winxp
> pro) if possible.  Can you please let me know which
> version of java, I'm assumming Sun Java 4.0 but I'm
> not entirely sure after reading your documentation
> at http://database-viewer.sourceforge.net/. 
>  
> thx,
> Marc Noon

Marc,

I'm testing the program on Java 2 Platform, Standard
Edition, v 1.4.2_03.  I use Mac OS X 10.3.9.

If you go to the web site there is a link to the
manual.  I've just looked at that it doesn't seem
clear what is needed on someones system to run Data
Manipulator.  I'll rewrite that and let you know when
I posted it.

What is needed is:
     Java 2 v1.4. with the SDK.
     A SQL database.
     A JDBC driver

The download from Sourceforge.net is tar and then gzip
so it needs to be un gunziped and then untarred.  When
you do that you should get a directory containing the
directories Docs, images, plug-ins and files
connection-list, dataManipulator.jar,
dataManipulatorLight.jar, Start.jar, and
startLight.jar.  On both Windows and Mac OS X I
believe you can double-click dataManipulator.jar to
launch the program.  You can also launch it from a
command line with java -jar dataManipulator.jar

It's pure Java and should work exactly the same on all
operating systems.  The windowing enviroment will make
some of the windows look a little different.

I hope this answers your questions.  Please let me
know if something is still unclear.

clay

P.S.

I've added you to two mailing list:
dat...@li...
and
dat...@li....
I think it would be a good Idea to communicate through
these two mailing list.  That way once we aquire beta
testers and other developers everyone can see what is
going on.

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Clayburn W. Juniel, III

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