[Marathonman-devel] Question about getting SwingSet demo running

[Justin D. <Jus...@co...>]

I downloaded Marathon on Friday and believe, finally, I understand how
it works.  I'll review how I believe Marathon works as there is sparse
documentation to verify my assumptions against.   I am simply looking
for someone to verify my set of premises and explain why the SwingSet
demo is getting a specific error.

1. You click on 'run.bat' in the SwingSet2 directory.  It runs an
instance of DisplayWindow with the argument 'swingset.project'.  So, it
goes and finds the 'swingset.project' file and, probably, loads it.
2. Looking at 'swingset.project' I see it is an XML file.  I do not
completely understand the meaning of all the tags but one imparticular
stands out; 'fixture="defaultFixture"'.  I am assuming that Marathon,
with its notion of fixtures, is being told 'defaultFixture' is the
target to work with.  As expected, there is a 'defaultFixture.py' in the
SwingSet2 directory.
3. Looking at 'defaultFixture.py' it seems to create an instance of
SwingSetFixture.java, though I do not know this for certain.  I am
assuming this is SwingSetFixture.java located in the SwingSet2
directory.
4. 'SwingSetFixture.java' is easy enough to follow.  It has a setUp and
tearDown method for creating the application and then destroying it.

Stating all that, can someone tell me why I keep getting this error when
I do the following:

1. Click on 'run.bat'
2. Click the red record button in DisplayWindow.
3. Get the following error message: "ScriptException: no fixture found
in (New File), you need to create a Fixture and assign it to the
variable 'fixture'"

I am obviously missing something simple but what is it?  The steps
described above seem sound unless DisplayWindow is ignoring the
'swingset.project' file.  At any rate, if someone can comment on this or
point me in the right direction, it would be must appreciated.  The
steps seem relatively easy and I believe I could reproduce them to get
my application up and running.