[Nanodesigner-developers] Fwd: Nanodesigner 0.0.4

[Fuji H. <fo...@gm...>]

Hello Nanodesigner Team,

I'm not sure if my original message got thru, sourceforge mail was
telling me it got delayed.
Anyways, here it is, forwarded.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Fuji Hakayito <fo...@gm...>
Date: May 8, 2005 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: Nanodesigner 0.0.4
To: Val=E8re Swinnen <sw...@us...>


Hi Valere,

I manged to get version 0.0.4 up and running in Suse Linux 9.1 Pro.  I
haven't really looked at the source code, but everything looks good
when I run the precompiled program.  I couldn't get the source code
from cvs to compile in Linux, it gives me 4 errors:

    [javac] /home/fuji/nanodesigner/org.nanodesigner.gui/src/org/nanodesign=
er/gui/AbstractDesigner.java:47:
cannot find symbol
    [javac] symbol  : constructor NDMenu()
    [javac] location: class org.nanodesigner.gui.menu.NDMenu
    [javac]         menu =3D new NDMenu();
    [javac]                ^
    [javac] /home/fuji/nanodesigner/org.nanodesigner.gui/src/org/nanodesign=
er/gui/menu/SwitchCmd.java:46:
cannot find symbol
    [javac] symbol  : variable SINGLEWINDOW
    [javac] location: class org.nanodesigner.gui.Designer
    [javac]         boolean singleOrNot =3D
prefs.getBoolean(Designer.SINGLEWINDOW,
Designer.SINGLEWINDOW_DEF)?false:true;
    [javac]                                                        ^
    [javac] /home/fuji/nanodesigner/org.nanodesigner.gui/src/org/nanodesign=
er/gui/menu/SwitchCmd.java:46:
cannot find symbol
    [javac] symbol  : variable SINGLEWINDOW_DEF
    [javac] location: class org.nanodesigner.gui.Designer
    [javac]         boolean singleOrNot =3D
prefs.getBoolean(Designer.SINGLEWINDOW,
Designer.SINGLEWINDOW_DEF)?false:true;
    [javac]
                   ^
    [javac] /home/fuji/nanodesigner/org.nanodesigner.gui/src/org/nanodesign=
er/gui/menu/SwitchCmd.java:47:
cannot find symbol
    [javac] symbol  : variable SINGLEWINDOW
    [javac] location: class org.nanodesigner.gui.Designer
    [javac]         prefs.putBoolean(Designer.SINGLEWINDOW, singleOrNot);
    [javac]                                  ^
    [javac] 4 errors

I get pretty good performance when importing the simpler molecules
like water, etc.  But the more complex molecules don't run very well
on my machine.  Also, I noticed some bugs:
-somtimes I can't resize the frames and get errors like:
Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x11cb)!
Xlib: sequence lost (0x111cd > 0x11cf) in reply type 0x0!
-when editing preferences, I click "OK" and get similar Xlib errors
and sometimes java exceptions

I hope this info helps for future releases!  :-)

Good Luck!

-Fuji

On 4/13/05, Val=E8re Swinnen <sw...@us...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have added version 0.0.4 to our cvs.  Binaries and source code can
> also be downloaded from the 'Developers only' section
> (http://nanodesigner.sourceforge.net/developers/index.html)
>
> No manual is included but I think with this limited functionality it
> won't be hard to figure out how to use it.
> As I told before a wheelmouse controls the movement in the 3D universe.
> If you don't have a wheelmouse you can use the up and down arrow key to
> zoom.
>
> Performance is obviously a rather big issue so if anybody can find a way
> to improve it I would certainly like to hear about it (better would be
> if you include your own source code!!! :-) )
> I would also be grateful to hear about performances on *your* machine(s).
>
> For the time being only one molecule can be loaded and displayed.
> Wireframe display mode is the default mode for obvious reasons.
>
> Unfortunately it won't run on Linux machines.  I didn't have time to
> look into that. Anybody?!?!
>
> If you find bugs you can contact me via e-mail or use the sourceforge
> bug tracker. Suggestions are welcome as always.
>
> As I mentioned at the Nanodesigner homepage the first official release
> (0.1) will be at the end of this month. Without your help I will
> probably not make this deadline. So for all volunteers that I haven't
> heard about since I added them to the list, this is a good time to step
> in and help, otherwise I don't see the point in keeping you on the list.
> So what about it, are you really interested in this project, or not???
>
> Val=E8re
>