--- In [email protected], Robert <birmingham_spi...@...> wrote: > > If I try to launch Freerouter from PCBNew 20080825c I get a message > "Unable to launch the application". Clicking on the Details button > reports: > > Error: Invalid arguments supplied {Files/KiCad/bin/freeroute.jnlp, > C:/Program } > > On the Exception tab it says: > > InvalidArgumentException[ Invalid arguments supplied: > {Files/KiCad/bin/freeroute.jnlp, C:/Program }] > at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source) > at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source) > at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) > > It sounds like there should be double-quotes around C:/Program > Files/KiCad/bin/freeroute.jnlp in the code that launches Freerouter. I > already have 'C:\apps' hard linked to 'C:\Program Files' to deal with > problems like this (I would love to bend the ear of the person at > Microsoft who came up with 'Program Files' et al). Do I have to > reinstall kicad in C:\apps or is there something I can tweak > retrospectively? > > I did search for this one, BTW, and was surprised to get no useful hits. > > Regards, > > Robert.
Robert, I added a double quote around the path that we think is the home of the freeroute.jnlp file. This should fix the problem pcbnew has with Program <space> Files. But like you, it will never fix the problem I have with Program <space> Files. Until the new release comes out with this fix, please just start free router as shown below. There is a Feb-2009 release candidate out now that does not contain this fix. I am assuming that that RC will not be the final release, and that my fix today will probably make it into the final release. This is perhaps slightly presumptuous, but not inordinately so since as bugs are found in the RC they tend to get fixed, like this one. C:> cd C:\Program <space> Files\kicad (i.e. cd to the directory containing the freeroute.jnlp file) C:> javaws freeroute.jnlp Dick
