[AG-TECH] Add Shared Whiteboard

[Channa Tang]

Hi Chris 

I have done what you said and the location it prints out is:
      d:\documents and settings\localadmin.CCBUILD130D

so I put the mlb directory and SharedMLB.agpkg there, and ran
SharedMLB.agpkg again, and tried to invoke it from the MLB
Controller's Start button, but it still didn't work.

Then, I just modified the name of the mlb directory from "mlb-1.1" to
"mlb" and it works now. I don't know if this is the reason why it
didn't work before.

Thanks again for your help!

By the way, could you give me some advice if I want to do something
more about the AG programs? Where could be a good start?

Best regards
Channa


On 14/09/05, Christoph Willing <willing at itee.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> On 13/09/2005, at 8:18 PM, Channa Tang wrote:
> 
> > Hi Chris
> >
> > Thank you for your reply.
> >
> > I have unzipped the mlb-1.1.zip file into my home directory:
> >      D:\Documents and Settings\localadmin
> > MLB works OK if I use mlb.exe, but it still doesn't work when I invoke
> > it from the MLB Controller's Start button.
> 
> Channa,
> 
> The shared app uses a technique to find the mlb directory and mlb.exe
> which may not work very well on Windows. Could you create a plain
> text file with the following lines in it?
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> 
> import os
> 
> print os.path.expanduser("~")
> ##### end of file #########
> 
> Save it as something like atest.py, then run it from a command shell
> and tell me what it prints out (whatever location it prints out is
> where the shared app is expecting to find the mlb directory).
> 
> 
> chris
> 
> 
> >
> > On 13/09/05, Christoph Willing <willing at itee.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On 13/09/2005, at 11:47 AM, Christoph Willing wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On 13/09/2005, at 2:23 AM, Channa Tang wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Thank you for your replys.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have installed AGTK 2.4 in Windows XP and downloaded MLB for
> >>>> Windows
> >>>> and SharedMLB.agpkg, but when I click on "Start MLB" button in MLB
> >>>> Controller, the mlb application will not start itself. Does anyone
> >>>> know why?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Channa,
> >>>
> >>> There are 2 ways of running MLB within the AG; either as a Node
> >>> Service or as a Shared Application. It looks like you're using the
> >>> second method and the Windows version of this was never completed,
> >>> meaning that the mlb executable isn't actually run. I'll try to
> >>> find some time to fix it in the next few days.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Channa,
> >>
> >> You need to unzip the mlb-1.1.zip file (which you downloaded from the
> >> "MLB for Windows" link) into your home directory. If your account
> >> name is "channa", then your home directory will be:
> >>     C:\Documents and Settings\channa
> >>
> >> After unzipping, you should end up with an "mlb" directory in your
> >> home directory. In turn, the "mlb" directory will contain some more
> >> directories and some files, including mlb.exe, which you could test
> >> as a standalone application first. If that works OK, then it will
> >> work when you invoke it from the MLB Controller's Start button.
> 
> Christoph Willing                           +61 7 3365 8350
> QPSF Access Grid Manager
> University of Queensland
> 
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> 
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