Darn! I forgot to say change your current directory to TOOLS directory in the SDK directory...
Also tell me if I'm giving you too much detail. I have no idea of your level of knowledge around computers. On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Jerry Elizondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hello Dave: > > The "problem" with Windows in general is that it hides messages from > console applications and the emulator is a console application. > > To run the emulator manually and hopefully receive an error message that > would clue us into what's happening do the following: click on Start, Run, > type *cmd* and press [Enter]. > > If you can´t find the Run command in the menu, right-click on the Start, > select properties, start menu, advanced and select Run so that it is > displayed in the start menu. > > A new window with a command line prompt should open. > > Once on the command window, change your drive (if the SDK is in a drive > different from C:). To change a drive type the drive letter, followed by a > colon and then press [Enter]. For example, to change your current drive to > G: type *G:* and press [Enter]. > > Then change your current directory to the directory where the SDK is, type > for example: > > *cd G:\eclipse\android-sdk-windows-1.0_r1\tools* [Enter] > > Type emulator and press [Enter]. If the emulator doesn't start, it should > give you an error message which please send me to try to get it running. > > If the emulator starts, then we would need to work on the Eclipse > configuration, maybe the *path* variable is not set (did you set it?) and > Eclipse can't find it or something like that. > > Let me know. > > > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:25 AM, David Hoffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> I have not tried to use the emulator manually, is this easy to do? >> My OS is XP Pro on Dell dual core laptop. >> >> After learning how to kill the emulator and then restart, I now see in the >> eclipse console log that it is calling the emulator but it is never >> displayed. What would cause the emulator to not be displayed? >> >> -Dave >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Elizondo >> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 2:59 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [android-beginners] Re: Problem with Hello Word app >> >> Hello Dave: >> >> Nope, so long as you have the full JDK (not the JRE) version 5 (1.5) is >> enough. I'm using Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) and everything runs fine. >> >> Two questions: >> >> 1) If you run the emulator manually, what do you get? >> 2) What OS are you running? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jerry >> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:20 PM, David Hoffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> My JAVA_HOME is set to jdk1.5.0_15 and this is in my path. How/why do I >> need a separate/different JDK for Android? Can you explain? >> >> Thanks, >> -Dave >> >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Elizondo >> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 1:11 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [android-beginners] Re: Problem with Hello Word app >> >> Hello David: >> >> I think that you are missing the JDK from SUN >> (http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp) I used JDK 6 Update 7. >> >> Let me know if you still have trouble after installing the JDK. >> >> Cheers, >> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 4:22 PM, David Hoffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >> After installing eclipse 3.4.1 and JDT plug-in per the Android docs, I >> have >> created the Hello World application. However, when I run the app nothing >> is >> displayed (the emulator is never shown). >> >> If I run using eclipsec.exe I see that >> >> com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.debug.launching.AndroidLaunchControler.launchEmu >> lator caused a NPE. >> >> I'm new to eclipse as well as Android so I don't know where to look for >> the >> cause of this problem. Is there a problem using eclipse 3.4.1? >> >> BTW, is there an Android plug-in for IntelliJ? >> >> -Dave >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
