[NLRS] Question re: Rainscatter1.56b

[aflowers at frontiernet.net]

Donn, Gary;

It's the first I have heard of this, but I haven't paid attention to all the traffic here.

It could be that the version 7 JRE *finally* removed some of Sun's APIs that were used for the FTP connection.  If so, you'll need to figure out how to run it with Java 6 or earlier until the software can be updated....it's been about 7 years or so, I think.  I imagine this has always been a problem for java branches like IcedTea on Linux and probably OSX since Apple started rolling their own java implementation.

In the meantime, you might google around for how to specifically invoke the jar file with the path to the version 6 installation.   If the v. 6 JRE is installed, you might be able to invoke it specifically from the command line with something like this:

"C:\Program Files\[whereever java6 is]\bin\javaw" rainscatter.jar 

...or whatever the name of the 1.56b jar file is.  If you search your computer for javaw.exe you can probably see the paths.  That's not the best solution, but the software was written by an amateur (little 'a') and could use some fixing up.  I'll try to fire it up tomorrow on a new PC and see if I can at least diagnose the problem.

Andy K0SM/2

----- Original Message -----
From: "WBØLJC" <wb0ljc at comcast.net>
To: nlrs at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Monday, July 2, 2012 11:39:09 PM
Subject: Re: [NLRS] Question re: Rainscatter1.56b




I mentioned this to you and others a month or more ago.

Unfortunately I have not been able to make it work on this computer.
Everything works on the laptop which may have an older version of
Java.

Hope someone is able to find a fix.

73, Gary  WBØLJC

On 7/2/2012 9:26 PM, Donn, WA2VOI wrote:
>
> I recently (13 Jun 12) had to update the Java run-time environment to jre7 to
> make my browser work.  THAT'S working fine, but I found out tonight that
> Rainscatter 1.56b does NOT work now.  The radar map comes up with no problem,
> but it will not pull storm data.  There appears to be no internet activity when
> the "Update Storms" is selected.  (Update Map DOES indicate net activity on the
> DSL modem.)
>
> JRE6 (dated 11/12/2010) is still on my machine, but I can't make RS recognize
> it.
>
> Anyone else seen this problem, and if so, how did you fix it ?
>
> 73 Donn
> WA2VOI/0
>
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