installing a new release

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#1

All

Its been awhile so I have maybe forgotten a step or two. I am pulling xith from cvs and getting the third party jars as a combo zip. Do i need to pull any toolkit stuff or is this all covered by the above??

Trying to run the HUDTest from src using eclipse…

Problem 1: getinstance undefiend…I assume the classpath is hosed…what to do??

// initialize TextureLoader
TextureLoader.getInstance().addTextureStreamLocator(new TextureStreamLocatorFile(demoFolder));
TextureLoader.getInstance().addTextureStreamLocator(new TextureStreamLocatorFile(demoFolder.hud()));
TextureLoader.getInstance().addTextureStreamLocator(new TextureStreamLocatorFile(demoFolder.textures()));
TextureLoader.getInstance().addTextureStreamLocator(new TextureStreamLocatorFile(demoFolder.models()));

#2

I would suggest you to check-out both xith and xith-tk. Anyway, work is mostly done on xith-tk.

I would beware of .jars file, you never know which version they are.

On Eclipse you can set dependance on a project in Build Path, “Projects” tab

#3

You should use the jars from CVS. E.g. the HIAL jar has been updated and is not yet included in the release jar.

When you want to run a xith-tk test you should consider not to start the test class itself but org.xith3d.test.Xith3DTestStarter instead.

#4

org.xith3d.test.Xith3DTestStarter what/how/who is this??? I have been back dated with xith for awhile and have not kept up with some of the more recent work.

Basically I pulled Xith and xith-tk from CVS, using eclipse. I also grabbed the appropriate jars. Oddly enough it went wierd from there. With both sets of CVS in a single eclipse project I could never compell eclipse to build all of the source. Looking at my bin directory only showed a subset of classes. So then I move them into two separate projects to build individually. This never actually worked well either.

What steps do you take when you pull from CVS ?? Obviously you have an approach that works.

Is the separation of xith and xith-tk meaningful anymore?? Would the community be better served by just combining the two source trees??

[quote]I would beware of .jars file, you never know which version they are.
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Man this seems dangerous, if the jars don’t reflect current source base can they be pulled?? Better to be missing tha have someone access an old class.

#5

Xith3DTestStarter is a small Swing GUI Qudus made to make tests easily startable.

The argument for WIll to separate xith and xith-tk was that basically everyone can add its own tool to xith-tk (within a specific set of guidelines) but xith core is meant to be stable and safe and only experienced programmers should have dev access to it… I think it’s pretty right, though the com.xith3d.* and org.xith3d.* distinction is pretty lame. All in org.xith3d would be much better.

#6

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…All in org.xith3d would be much better.
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#7

Yes. This is part of the dev plan, I’ve completet today and which I’ll release, when I’ve discovered how to add a new menu entry in joomla. Can you tell me how to do this, Amos?
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