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adm
Processing won't launch
Oct 1st, 2005, 11:23pm  
Today, when I tried to start up Processing on my laptop, it just didn't work. It has been working just fine until today. The laptop is a windows machine running XP Pro. When I try to start Processing, the little hourglass shows up next to my cursor as if its working on opening it up, but then it just goes away. In task manager, processing.exe shows up taking up about 2 megs of memory and then in less than a minute, it vanishes. I've tried re-downloading the whole package, running it from various places on my hard drive, but nothing is helping. I tried renaming the Processing folder in My Documents to see if Processing was getting far enough to create a new Processing sketch folder, but it never did.

Has this ever happened to anyone else? Is there a solution?

Thanks,
Aaron
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fry
Re: Processing won't launch
Reply #1 - Oct 2nd, 2005, 8:05pm  
have you read the faq?
http://processing.org/faq/bugs.html#wontstart

my guess would be that you've installed something that junked up your PATH or CLASSPATH.
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adm
Re: Processing won't launch
Reply #2 - Oct 2nd, 2005, 9:05pm  
My CLASSPATH is: C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_01\lib\ext\QTJava.zip

For the Path variable, I have: %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\

That looks kinda nasty.

And maybe the QTJAVA environment variable is pertinent here: C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_01\lib\ext\QTJava.zip

I'm a little nervous about messing around with this stuff. Can you make any reccomendations, Fry?

Thanks,
Aaron
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fry
Re: Processing won't launch
Reply #3 - Oct 15th, 2005, 8:11pm  
weird, it looks like you've updated to quicktime 7, is that correct? but the QTJAVA variable isn't set correctly. do you have java installed on your machine? (try typing java -version into a command prompt and let me know what you get).
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