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Jun-04-08
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| Viewer Deluxe: Advanced Java troubleshooting isn't a rocket science but some preparations
are always a good idea. The first step is the java console which covers
most common problems. Here is a short description of "Java Console":
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs... Next step will be turning tracing and logging features. The results will be stored onto your local disk and the exact location depends on your platform. Here is a short description of "Tracing and Logging"
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs... Next step will be to try setting the trace level to higher number (1-5). That way you might catch even deeper
troubles but it gets less suitable for the faint of heart. For Mac users I found this link "Overview of Java for Mac OS X"
http://developer.apple.com/document... |
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Jun-05-08
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| Viewer Deluxe: A very <important warning> for those who're brave enough to play with trace levels (see above).
When you're done with your tests double check that you turned off both logging and tracing.
Otherwise you will experience fast degrading performance while potentially big
amounts of trace/log data is being written to your local disk in the background.
Once you change the settings you can make sure they will be in effect by
closing all active browser windows.
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Jun-09-08
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| Viewer Deluxe: I put together a simple test for some quick troubleshooting.
Please, try it if you have problems loading games in CVD or
just want to make sure that your Java installation is working fine. "Platform compatibility quick test (for CVD)"
http://www.chessdiscussion.com/phpB... |
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Jun-10-08
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| Red October: I was able to play through each and every one of those games, annotations, variations etc, no problems whatsoever |
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Jun-10-08
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| Viewer Deluxe: Well done, <Red October>. This is good news and means that Mac OS, Safari and CVD can live together peacefully. Of course, such a quick test isn’t the ultimate proof and particular issues (like your own case) might still exist. I do have some more ideas to share that might affect your configuration. First of all. Do you use any firewall or antivirus software? Not always, but some of those can affect your Web experience, so try turning them off. Same applies to any type of proxy that might eventually cache the Web pages. I’m not sure if similar effect can be caused by router software (if you have one) but you may want to eliminate that possibility to be certain for sure. |
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Jun-10-08
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| Open Defence: <Nikolai> thanks, I just use a DSL modem so no other proxy configuration, I run Net Barrier but I dont see an option to turn it off |
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Jun-22-08
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| Hesam7: Apparently my problem is a known bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+... |
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Jun-22-08
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| Viewer Deluxe: Excellent resource, <Hesam7>.
There is more bad news because people are reporting both OpenJDK <and> Sun’s Java 6 JRE problems. It doesn’t seem that FF3 is going to make our life easier. The good news is that some good suggestions are already available. As usual one should take extra care when setting things on Linux but eventually, I’m sure, everything should be back to normal. Please, share your experience and help others who will face the same issue. |
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Jun-23-08
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| Hesam7: <VD> for the time being I am using the old viewer. The other good news is that in the next couple of months Sun will make Java completely open source so in the worst case scenario by the next Ubuntu release (Intrepid Ibex, 30th October) everything will be fine. Here is where I got the news for Java: http://developers.slashdot.org/deve... |
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Jun-24-08
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| Viewer Deluxe: <Hesam7>, if a savvy user like you is giving up on the plug-in issues I wonder what the majority of ubuntu fans will do.
The real good news would be if we had a solution in the present. I agree that OpenJDK should have a huge potential of changing the Java world. I’m still curious why the plug-in worked fine with FF2 and stopped working with FF3. |
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Jun-26-08
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| Hesam7: <VD> I do not count myself as a savvy user (my image of a savvy user is someone who runs Gentoo or Slackware and hacks into the kernel!). And as you mentioned the problem does not go away when one installs the Sun version I also recreated the symbolic links but it did not work. I think the reason not that many people are complaining is that OpenJDK works for most of the purposes, I can still use the MyChess player for example. Now that I am at it what do you think is the best Chess GUI for Linux? On the engine side Fruit 2.3.1 (UCI) has a Linux edition and is really strong but I have problems with GUIs. |
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Jul-13-08
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| Viewer Deluxe: <Hesam7>, No matter what user classification we use a solution for such a problem should be available very soon. I expect JVM gurus to come up with at least a workaround sooner or later.
Hopefully the plug-in troubles will not involve kernel changes. I don’t recommend relying on a non-compliant partial implementation, for example, where MyChess (only) seems to work. For the record, CVD is not even using latest and greatest JVM features so I suspect many other applets will fail as well. Moreover, unstable environment like that can easily and unexpectedly break in more critical situations. Meeting the full specifications is not only possible but was already done more than once on different platforms. I’m only a sporadic Linux user and I'd better not give you advice on any chess GUIs. |
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Jul-25-08
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| Viewer Deluxe: <Hesam7>, It’s been a while since you first reported about your OpenJDK troubles on Linux.
Is there any good news?
You are not talking about 64-bit Linux, are you? It seems (to me, at least) that 64-bit Java for Linux is not available yet and most people use hybrid 64/32 bit installations. Anyway, keep us posted if you get any working solutions. |
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Jul-28-08
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| Hesam7: <VD> I have not done anything since the last time we spoke. I am using a 64-bit version of Ubuntu right now and yes there are always more problems with this version (for example couple of years ago the Flash players did not work on the 64-bit version). |
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| Jul-29-08 |
| Z.Ramsay: Im getting URL Exception on my site, need urgent help! |
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| Jul-29-08 |
| Z.Ramsay: my website is caribchess.net, anyway the thing is down for now, i get it up and running normally, but when i stick in to a cms it gives me the URL exception error message |
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Jul-29-08
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| Viewer Deluxe: <Hesam7>, Even the original Sun’s 64-bit JVM doesn’t quite work inside browsers on 64-bit Linux. For example, on this page http://www.java.com/en/download/man... there is a note about 64-bit Linux (and Solaris) that says: <“Please use the 32-bit version for Java applet and Java Web Start support.”> On the other hand, I’m often getting feedback from Linux (Ubuntu, Suse) users using FF 3.0 and all’s well for most of them. I can’t be sure if they use 32-bit or 64-bit OS though. <Z.Ramsay>, What does the URL Exception say? If the path to PGN file is invalid you need to fix it first. When you have your site up send us a link where we can see the problem. |
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| Jul-29-08 |
| Z.Ramsay: Arite im going to put the site up for a few hours so you can see.... here is the link: http://caribchess.net/index.php?opt..., <applet codebase="." archive="Viewer-Deluxe.jar" code="ChessBoard.class" width="631" height="560"> <span name="LightSquares" value="F3DCC2"></span> <span name="DarkSquares" value="DDA37B"></span> <span name="Background" value="CCCCCC"></span> <span name="ImagesFolder" value="images"></span> <span name="PuzzleMode" value="off"></span> <span name="MayScript" value="on"></span> Your browser is completely ignoring the <APPLET> tag! </applet> |
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| Jul-29-08 |
| Z.Ramsay: thats how the html looks
thanks for the quick reply, i really need a quick solution |
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| Jul-29-08 |
| Z.Ramsay: heres the link again, http://caribchess.net/index.php?opt... |
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| Jul-29-08 |
| Z.Ramsay: sorry i let out the important line from the html:
<applet codebase="." archive="Viewer-Deluxe.jar" code="ChessBoard.class" width="631" height="560"> <span name="PgnGameFile" value="JAMCH2008.pgn"></span> <span name="LightSquares" value="F3DCC2"></span> <span name="DarkSquares" value="DDA37B"></span> <span name="Background" value="CCCCCC"></span> <span name="ImagesFolder" value="images"></span> <span name="PuzzleMode" value="off"></span> <span name="MayScript" value="on"></span> Your browser is completely ignoring the <APPLET> tag! </applet> |
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Jul-29-08
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| Viewer Deluxe: <Z.Ramsay>, You need a quick solution, you say! I’m yet to meet somebody that doesn’t :-) You are in luck and I do have some good news for you. Try using PARAM instead of SPAN and you will be back in business. Note: PARAM doesn’t use a closing tag. How did you end up using SPAN in first place?
If in doubt take a look at the documentation page for the correct format. |
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| Jul-30-08 |
| Z.Ramsay: Thanks it works great now...apparently Joomla! was automatically changing the PARAM to span, anyway got a different editor component and it worked out. Thanks much! I'm still not sure whether to use MyChess or Chess Viewer Deluxe though... |
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| Aug-10-08 |
| GeauxCool: I'd like to use middlegame positions to search the chessgames database. Would it be possible for the Chessviewer to represent moves of a pgn file textually, with fen lines? Such lines could be stored in the database and would allow fen position searches. Maybe you know of an easier way to search using positions? |
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Aug-10-08
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| Viewer Deluxe: That’s a very interesting idea, <GeauxCool> A simple FEN search like that will give us more power. The problem is that searching and other DB functions go far beyond the functionality of CVD. Such software was developed by CG.com and they are in charge of enhancing it. I agree that it will be great if we had a way of searching for a particular position. On the other side I don’t know how feasible it is to implement the feature in a Web environment. |
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