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Subject: VDCT installation and documentation problems...
From: "Kevin M. Peterson" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:57:39 -0600

I am trying to get VDCT running on a Windows 98 machine that originally had none of the
components that are required for VDCT. I have been following the direction on the following
website:


http://www.cosylab.com/visualdct/builds/VisualDCT/2.3.1240/doc/DOC-Java_Installation_and_Build_Process_of_VisualDCT.html

I found the directions extremely difficult to follow due to a lack of important information. An
example is the explanation of why 3rd party software is needed. It's nice to know that 3rd party
software is needed for the build process and for program execution, but it would be significantly
more helpful to have a list of the software that is needed for each.


At other points in the documentation information was simply missing. In the third instruction
of the "3. Eclipse Installation" section it says to define two variables but only one is mentioned.
The fourth instruction of the same section says that the necessary Eclipse extensions are
available on the Cosylab web page but I was unable to find them. Links to necessary pieces
of software would be helpful.


On the topic of links, in the "Dependencies" section of

http://www.cosylab.com/visualdct/builds/VisualDCT/

there is a link to what is supposedly VisualDCT-Common, but the link does not work. I had to
search for it on google to find a site that had something that I could download. I ended up
downloading version 1.2 of VisualDCT-Common.


So with my complaints about the documentation aside, I still do not know how to get VDCT up
and running. I have the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition and the JUnit Testing Framework
installed and working correctly. I have the other pieces of "required" software (Styler ANT Task,
MySQL JDBC driver, VisualDCT-Common, Eclipse, and Apache Ant) installed but I do not know
if they are installed correctly. When I run VisualDCT.jar VDCT appears to start. I am prompted
to choose an Epics database and when I choose one, all my pretty windows go away and I'm
left staring at my background. I'm pretty sure that isn't the desired behavior.


Which software do I need to get VDCT running? Do I need to build VDCT or are the build instructions
just provided in case I want a non-standard installation?


Or better yet, how do I install VDCT if I know nothing about the software on which VDCT is dependent?
This seems to be the question that the "Java installation and build process of VDCT" should answer,
but since it fails to do so, I am left extraordinarily confused.


Thanks for your time,

The extraordinarily confused Kevin Peterson


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