Dear Community,
In the last 6 Months, two different users reported a technical problem to start the STRAP viewer developed by myself on a Mac OSX computer. Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce this problem. Posting to the PDB_L forum, all 9 people who responded, could not reproduce the problem either. It might be, that there is a bug in STRAP and that this bug is tolerated in 98% of the cases but occasionally shows up. It might also be that particular Java installations exhibit a bug and do not cope with certain webstart parameter. My hope is to identify the problem with the help of this broader forum. This might be useful for other Java projects as well. I would like you to try to start the STRAP program with one of the following links. This will open STRAP and display a PDB entry. It requires Java 1.5 or higher. If the Browser asks what todo with jnlp files, then tell him to open it the ../bin/javaws program of the Java installation. http://www.bioinformatics.org/strap/lite/strap.php?load=PDB:1gd2 http://www.bioinformatics.org/strap/lite/strap.php?load=PDB:1ryp http://www.bioinformatics.org/strap/lite/strap.php?load=PDB:2wbs The STRAP viewer is safe, it has a built in security check and can only write/modify files to the directory $HOME/.StrapAlign or C:\StrapAlign on Windows. No other files are modified. You do not need to worry about security. Here are the official Java-Webstart demos for testing whether Java is set-up properly: http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/javawebstart/demos.html Can you please drop a short message to christoph.gille (a) charite.de telling whether it worked or not and what operation system and what kind of Java you have. For those who are interested in more exciting examples of STRAP: http://www.bioinformatics.org/strap/PDF/strapI.php?year=2003&document=PMID12595256&link=2 http://www.bioinformatics.org/strap/PDF/strapI.php?year=2003&document=PMID12595256&link=1 Many thanks Christoph _______________________________________________ BBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb
