RE: (jhandles instal lation can´t find ja va) Implementation o f "uicontrol" for la test Octave?

[Pen-Yuan Hsing]

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> Subject: Re: (newer Java package needed?) Implementation of "uicontrol" for latest Octave?
> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:18:28 +0200
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> Am Freitag, 20. August 2010, 18:39:09 schrieb Pen-Yuan Hsing:
> > On 2010/08/20 11:55, Martin Helm wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, 20. August 2010, 17:47:20 schrieb Pen-Yuan Hsing:
> > >> On 2010/08/20 05:41, Martin Helm wrote:
> > >>> Am Freitag, 20. August 2010, 02:21:21 schrieb Tatsuro MATSUOKA:
> > >>>> Hello
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Current situation of Jhandle has been written by Michael as a reply to
> > >>>> the ML topic.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Trouble with jhandles--installation issue?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Thread
> > >>>> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Trouble-with-jhandles-installation
> > >>>> -i ssu e-tt2317282.html
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Point to Michal's reply
> > >>>> http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Trouble-with-jhandles-installation
> > >>>> -i ssu e-td2317282.html#a2320473
> > >>>>
> > >>>> AS sentence in the above post
> > >>>> *****
> > >>>> So the bottom line is: current jhandles implementation is not suited
> > >>>> for current octave code. *****
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Perhaps this is the reason why the jhandle package is disappeared from
> > >>>> the current octave-forge site.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I am not a Matlab user so that the above is all I can tell you.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Regards
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Tatsuro
> > >>>>
> > >>>> --- Pen-Yuan Hsing wrote:
> > >>>>> Hello,
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> As a new Octave user, I am trying to get our lab's Matlab graphics
> > >>>>> program (in the form of a bunch of .m files) to work in Octave. I
> > >>>>> loaded them up and try to run it, but it told me that there is no
> > >>>>> definition of the "uicontrol" function.
> > >>>>> After some searching, I realised that "uicontrol" might not be
> > >>>>> implemented in Octave yet, but there exists the JHandles package that
> > >>>>> takes care of it. Unfortunately, I cannot find a place to download
> > >>>>> this package anywhere, including Octave Forge. Therefore:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> 1. Is there a place to download the latest JHandles package?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> OR
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> 2. Is there an alternative solution to getting my program to work?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Thank you very much.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> P.S. I am running Octave under Mac OS X 10.6.
> > >>>
> > >>> You can give jhandles 0.3.5 a try if you are working with octave 3.2.4
> > >>> and the java-1.2.7 package
> > >>>
> > >>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Forge%20Packages/
> > >>> R2 009-05-08/jhandles-0.3.5.tar.gz/download
> > >>>
> > >>> I compiled it on my linux machine for 3.2.4 and with that version this
> > >>> jhandles version works (I have also the development version and 3.3.52
> > >>> on my machine but never tried to make it run with the newer versions
> > >>> and I guess it will not work without changes to the source code).
> > >>> Since it works on my linux machine but has problems with the same
> > >>> octave version on windows machines there is no guarantee that it will
> > >>> work on mac.
> > >>>
> > >>> But maybe it is worth the effort to try this combination.
> > >>>
> > >>> - mh
> > >>
> > >> Hello again,
> > >>
> > >> I managed to install packages for my 64-bit Mac OS X running latest
> > >> Octave.app by following the instructions here:
> > >>
> > >> http://www.supermegaultragroovy.com/blog/2009/09/17/installing-octave-pa
> > >> cka ges-in-snow-leopard/
> > >>
> > >> However, when I try to install JHandles, it fails and tells me:
> > >>
> > >> "./configure: line 3366: test: 1.6.0_20: integer _expression_ expected
> > >> configure: WARNING: this package requires at least Java-1.5
> > >> make: *** [all] Error 255
> > >> ....."
> > >>
> > >> The Octave Forge website provides Java 1.2.7, is there a place to find a
> > >> newer Java version>1.5 to make JHandles work?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks!!
> > >
> > > This message does not mean that you need a newer java package (java
> > > packgae version 1.5 does not exist), but that the configure is not able
> > > to interpret the java version string 1.6.0_20 and therefore does not
> > > recognize that you have already java version>= 1.5 installed.
> > > Unfortuneately I cannot tell you how to solve that because I have no mac
> > > and on my system this did not happen, so I cannot reproduce that.
> > > Hopefully one of the mac users will know a solution.
> > >
> > > - mh
> >
> > Just to experiment, I tried to do this in my Ubuntu virtual machine and
> > got the say error message saying "Java support not compiled" (even
> > though I installed the java package from Octave Forge). Does anyone have
> > experience in this regard?
>
> You need to check if the environment variable JAVA_HOME is set correctly and
> there was one nasty trick that jhandles expect a client folder instead of a
> server folder in the java installation at the right place.
>
> It is in the folder /usr/lib64/jvm/jre/lib/amd64 on opensuse 64 bit.
> Just make a symbolic link named client in that folder (but check before the
> folder can be different on ubuntu) which points to server.
>
> If it tells you that it cannot find jogl make sure yiu have jogl installed.
>
> I hope there was nothing else which I forgot now.
>
> - mh

Still doesn work. Here is what I did.

1. Made a symbolic link so that :

/usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/amd64/client

points to where my actual libjvm.so is, which is

/usr/lib/jvm/default-java/jre/lib/amd64/server

2. Set JAVA_HOME so that:

$JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre/lib/amd64/client

3. Successfully installed the java package from Octave Forge.

4. Tried to install jhandles, but got the following:

¨error: package java is not installed
error: called from:
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.2.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 2005, column 4
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.2.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 301, column 7
make: *** [all] Error 255
'make' returned the following error: make: Entering directory `/tmp/oct-oLS2yz/jhandles-0.3.5/src'
Java support not compiled
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/oct-oLS2yz/jhandles-0.3.5/src'
error: called from `pkg>configure_make' in file /usr/share/octave/3.2.3/m/pkg/pkg.m near line 1253, column 2
error: called from:
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.2.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 714, column 5
error:   /usr/share/octave/3.2.3/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 287, column 7¨

Is there anything else that I could try? Again I am trying this in my Ubuntu 10.04 virtual machine, with the following:

java -version

java version "1.6.0_18"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.8.1) (6b18-1.8.1-0ubuntu1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 16.0-b13, mixed mode)

javac -version

javac 1.6.0_18

Octave 3.2 packagae from Ubuntu repository, installed with default settings