Thanks for your reply, Dick. It occurred to me I should also be able to double-click on the freeroute.jnlp, but whether I try to run it the way you suggest, by double-clicking on it, or by going to the website, it still doesn't run.
Looking at the Freerouter forum there appears to be a problem with V1.2.22 onward. I've added my two Eurocent's worth at http://www.freerouting.net/fen/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9&p=54#p54. Regards, Robert. Dick H. wrote: > --- 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 > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your > question. > Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of > Kicad. > Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your > symbols/modules to the kicad library. > For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the > kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups > Links > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.10.25/1958 - Release Date: 02/18/09 > 08:57:00 >
