A pre-release of the latest chronotext coup: http://slashrun.org/War
Behind the scenes: lots of jogl code, commanding armies of words 
More details will follow with the official release.
Meanwhile, I’d love to get some feedback on how it works on your beloved mac or linux box (regular java-webstart stuff, total download size under 500K…)
Thanks!
Ariel
Hm, on my Mac, no window opens up at all. :-\
dont understand what I have to do ::), but works well and smooth here
Thanks for your feedback Demonpants.
Can you tell me more about you mac, browser and java version?
I wonder if your mac will love these more direct (i.e. no form submission) ones:
Thanks!
Dzzd: very shortly, the concept behind is that you have a whole markup syntax and an editor to create your own war-of-the-words.
p.s: are you on mac, win or linux?
Mac OS X 10.5
Intel Core Duo 2ghz 32-bit
Java 1.5
2gb RAM
11/13/08 2:51:44 PM [0x0-0x151151].com.apple.JavaWebStart Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
11/13/08 2:51:44 PM [0x0-0x151151].com.apple.JavaWebStart at com.sun.javaws.LaunchSelection.selectJRE(LaunchSelection.java:60)
11/13/08 2:51:44 PM [0x0-0x151151].com.apple.JavaWebStart at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDesc.<init>(LaunchDesc.java:76)
11/13/08 2:51:44 PM [0x0-0x151151].com.apple.JavaWebStart at com.sun.javaws.jnl.XMLFormat.parse(XMLFormat.java:117)
11/13/08 2:51:44 PM [0x0-0x151151].com.apple.JavaWebStart at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(LaunchDescFactory.java:48)
11/13/08 2:51:44 PM [0x0-0x151151].com.apple.JavaWebStart at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(LaunchDescFactory.java:60)
11/13/08 2:51:44 PM [0x0-0x151151].com.apple.JavaWebStart at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(LaunchDescFactory.java:117)
11/13/08 2:51:44 PM [0x0-0x151151].com.apple.JavaWebStart at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Main.java:183)
11/13/08 2:51:44 PM [0x0-0x151151].com.apple.JavaWebStart at com.sun.javaws.Main.main(Main.java:137)
That is the error generated from those test versions.
komadori: you’re absolutely right, 10-x
I included the solaris binaries, should work fine now…
Weird, now I got this:
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.util.Arrays.copyOf([CI)[C
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at m.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at al.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at cb.<init>(Unknown Source)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at an.<init>(Unknown Source)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at bm.a(Unknown Source)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at bm.<init>(Unknown Source)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at cc.c(Unknown Source)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at cc.a(Unknown Source)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at bo.a(Unknown Source)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at aw.endDocument(Unknown Source)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser.eof(Parser.java:639)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.HTMLScanner.scan(HTMLScanner.java:589)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser.parse(Parser.java:449)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at aw.a(Unknown Source)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at bo.a(Unknown Source)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at org.slashrun.war.WarSpace.a(Unknown Source)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at org.chronotext.space.Run.a(Unknown Source)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at org.chronotext.space.Run.<init>(Unknown Source)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at org.chronotext.space.Run.main(Unknown Source)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Launcher.java:1184)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Launcher.java:1122)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.continueLaunch(Launcher.java:965)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleApplicationDesc(Launcher.java:518)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleLaunchFile(Launcher.java:218)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:165)
11/13/08 4:05:54 PM [0x0-0x15d15d].com.apple.JavaWebStart at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)
Demonpants,
I will check tomorrow (very late by night in this part of the world…) the strange stacktrace you just sent.
Meanwhile I made those test-cases to test the previous issue:
http://slashrun.org/test/test1B.jnlp
http://slashrun.org/test/test2B.jnlp (pack200-gzip)
If it’s still broken, these 2 (another small app that is known to work on mac) will behave, right?
http://slashrun.org/test/test4.jnlp
http://slashrun.org/test/test3.jnlp (pack200-gzip)
Thanks again for your help, much appreciated!
Following-up on Demonpants latest stack-trace: there was indeed a serious problem!
I was using java.util.Arrays.copyOf() which was introduced only with Java 1.6.
So I upgraded everything and I hope it should work with any version of Java 1.5, and on macs in particular!
Ariel
Both test1b and test2b worked on my mac (os 10.5, 2.2 ghz, macbook pro, java 1.6).
Works on my MBP 2.53GHz, OSX 10.5.5, NVidia 8600GM, Java 1.5.
It’s very nice and silky smooth. Good work!
Would be even greater if I could control the camera with my mouse
.rex
Hey .rex,
Thanks for your feedback (it seems that most of the bugs are fixed with macs now…)
Concerning camera manipulation: actually, you can do that already
Check the “spotlight on 3d manipulation” paragraph on this page or the last example on this one
Worked on my Mac. Pretty cool! I like the idea. Think you could turn it into a game?
Nah, I’m not into games very much these days
Instead I’m focusing on a research on text at the digital age, and “the war of the words” is “just” one more experiment (I’m fully busy at the next one: the graph…)
But if you want to discuss about game-like directions for “the war of the words”, for the fun: shoot, it will be a pleasure…
A+
Works fine here under Mandriva Linux 2007 with JDK 1.6 update 4 but I recommend you to test it with the OpenJDK, you might have bad surprises 
Thanks for the report on linux…
do you mean that you tested it already and it didn’t work or that the OpenJDK is not working well with JOGL applications in general?
When your JNLP file contains a markup , netx (equivalent of Java Webstart for OpenJDK) often fails to load it. Jake2 and Avengina work with OpenJDK but not TUER.
I’m not aware of any element named in the JNLP specs
Did you mean ?
(In any case, I’m taking note of your overall warning on the “potential breakability of things” with OpenJDK…)