From jacobson@cns.uni.edu Wed Jan 22 4:10 p.m.

   Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:10:09 -0600 (CST)
   From: Mark Jacobson <jacobson@math-cs.cns.uni.edu>
     To: Frodo.Baggins@MiddleEarth.com

Subject: Fixing jGrasp IDE, Java SDK compiler, 
         using ObjectDraw package (William College)

Hi Frodo,

For problems with the compiler, you need to do the following:

   1.  be sure you installed the compiler first,

   2.  and install the jGrasp IDE integrated development environment
       2nd, AFTER installing the compiler....

i will demonstrate in class tommorrow how to test out your jGrasp
and your compiler to see if they are working for JAVA at all.

it is a separate matter to make sure it is working for the Williams
College textbook.

for that, be sure you download the 3 files for program #1.

store those three files in the SAME FOLDER.

make sure that folder does NOT HAVE ANY SPACES in its name.

    cs061  or Java is a good folder name
    -----     ----

    cs 061 or Java class is a BAD folder name.
    ------    ----------

double click on the PROJECT file to start up the jGrasp and have it
have the write settings to run Java programs that import objectdraw.*;
                                                  --------------------

open up the Java file for lab one or create a new one and save it
under the same name as the name of the class, and see if it compiles
correctly.

i will demonstrate some more of this in class.

come in and use the Wright Hall labs and see if you can do the JAVA
here, with the already installed jGrasp and Java compiler.  you might
discover here, where you can get help, that is is just something you
were not doing correctly about putting all the files in the same
folder, or about starting from the .gpj PROJECT file.

Then when you go back home, you can try it on your machine again,
and see you now know how to do jGrasp and it works at home when
you open up the jGrasp .gpj project file for Lab1 and the .java file
correctly, and have objectdraw.jar in the same folder, or you might

    see how you need to uninstall jGrasp and the Java SDK compiler,
and download them again and reinstall them, being sure to install
the Java SDK compiler FIRST and the jGrasp programming environment
LAST.

    And if you have problems still, let me know, but give a very
detailed explanation of the situation, so i know what to suggest
instead of having to describe every possible correction.

    And watch in class tommorrow, I will try to demonstrate several
things you can do and try that are related to this.

    Mark