bradwall
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If anyone is interested in beta testing one of my personal programs, feel free. The program is called Budget Master.
It doesn't come with any documentation so if you have questions, let me know.
Don't worry about hurting my feelings and not testing it. It will not bother me. I have a few testers already, I just thought I would let some of my friends at DROD know about it just in case they were interested in trying it out.

Sorry that there is no documentation. I hope that it is pretty straight forward. Feel free to ask questions.

You need Java JRE 1.5.x: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
and Adobe Acrobat Reader (for reports): http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

What I am interested in:
I would really like to have someone try it on Linux. You will obviously need to download the .zip file instead of the .exe file for Linux.

Links for download:
http://www.freewebs.com/bradwall/Downloads/BudgetMaster_1_1_beta.exe
http://www.freewebs.com/bradwall/Downloads/BudgetMaster_1_1_beta.zip

You can also download it from the links on my site:
http://www.freewebs.com/bradwall

Unzip/extract to whereever you want... If you have Java JRE 1.5.x installed, you should be able to double-click on the Budget_Master.jar file to start the program.


Thanks,
Brad



EDIT:
FYI... I added a DROD Easter Egg.
To fire off the Easter Egg (yeah, I know that it is not recommended to tell people how to open your easter eggs) simply in the very top-left corner of the main window.

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[Last edited by bradwall at 12-09-2005 02:10 PM]

jamie
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I don't know much about Java, and this error could therefore easily be my side..

However, these are the results from FreeBSD, first with native FREEBSD-JDK1.5.0 and then with Linux-Sun-JDK1.5.0.05 :

4:24 (145) "Budget Master" jamie@thompson% /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java -jar Budget_Master.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: toolbelt/DateTime
        at budgetmaster.MainFrame.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at budgetmaster.Main.main(Unknown Source)

4:24 (146) "Budget Master" jamie@thompson% /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.5.0/bin/java -jar Budget_Master.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: init
        at sun.awt.motif.MToolkit.init(Native Method)
        at sun.awt.motif.MToolkit.<init>(MToolkit.java:129)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:350)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
        at java.awt.Toolkit$2.run(Toolkit.java:833)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(Toolkit.java:804)
        at java.awt.Window.getToolkit(Window.java:759)
        at java.awt.Window.init(Window.java:285)
        at java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:318)
        at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:419)
        at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:384)
        at javax.swing.JFrame.<init>(JFrame.java:150)
        at budgetmaster.MainFrame.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at budgetmaster.Main.main(Unknown Source)

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[Last edited by jamie at 12-09-2005 04:28 AM]

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You sure you need Acrobat ? After using Kpdf for a while I really hate acrobat. It's soo big and soooo slow. Perhaps you meant pdf viewer in general ?

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jamie
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Kpdf is lovely. It improved leaps and bounds from the version in Kde 3.3 to the one in 3.4 (I think that was the step)



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bradwall
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b0rsuk wrote:
You sure you need Acrobat ? After using Kpdf for a while I really hate acrobat. It's soo big and soooo slow. Perhaps you meant pdf viewer in general ?

No, you don't 'need' Acrobat. The program is set to try and open the .pdf file after running a report. If it doesn't launch, you could always open the Reports folder (that gets created in the Budget Master directory) after the report is created.

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jamie wrote:
I don't know much about Java, and this error could therefore easily be my side..

However, these are the results from FreeBSD, first with native FREEBSD-JDK1.5.0 and then with Linux-Sun-JDK1.5.0.05 :

4:24 (145) "Budget Master" jamie@thompson% /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java -jar Budget_Master.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: toolbelt/DateTime
        at budgetmaster.MainFrame.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at budgetmaster.Main.main(Unknown Source)

4:24 (146) "Budget Master" jamie@thompson% /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.5.0/bin/java -jar Budget_Master.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: init
        at sun.awt.motif.MToolkit.init(Native Method)
        at sun.awt.motif.MToolkit.<init>(MToolkit.java:129)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:350)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
        at java.awt.Toolkit$2.run(Toolkit.java:833)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(Toolkit.java:804)
        at java.awt.Window.getToolkit(Window.java:759)
        at java.awt.Window.init(Window.java:285)
        at java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:318)
        at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:419)
        at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:384)
        at javax.swing.JFrame.<init>(JFrame.java:150)
        at budgetmaster.MainFrame.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at budgetmaster.Main.main(Unknown Source)

Thanks for the info.
I will see if I can figure out what the heck went wrong with that.
I wonder if it is how I obfuscated my code... not sure though. I may post a non-obfuscated version and see if that still has the same problems or not.

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I'm a bit suspicious how the 2 different java engines give different results... I hope that makes sense to you - don't take my setup as being authorative :-)

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[Last edited by jamie at 12-10-2005 02:23 AM]

bradwall
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New version:

http://www.freewebs.com/bradwall/Downloads/BudgetMaster_1_1_beta2.exe
http://www.freewebs.com/bradwall/Downloads/BudgetMaster_1_1_beta2.zip

This probably didn't fix any Linux issues.

I am not sure why they give two different errors.
I think it has to do with the default Look And Feel that I am using... still looking into that.

Thanks for the info.

jamie
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Incidently, FreeBSD isn't Linux, but it has a 'compatibility layer' that lets it run Linux binaries. And for other testing purposes, I have the native FreeBSD java SDK and the Linux one installed, hence my 2 versions.

As you suspect, I got the identical error feedback with this version as with the previous one

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bradwall
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jamie wrote:
Incidently, FreeBSD isn't Linux, but it has a 'compatibility layer' that lets it run Linux binaries. And for other testing purposes, I have the native FreeBSD java SDK and the Linux one installed, hence my 2 versions.

As you suspect, I got the identical error feedback with this version as with the previous one

Thanks.