[PlanetCCRMA] SwingOSC with SuperCollider

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 18:51 -0700, Jonathan Segel wrote:
> i've been spending the day trying migrate my gui stuff in  
> SuperCollider from SCUM to SwingOSC to make the patches cross  
> platform (so i can use my OS X patches in PlanetCCRMA)
> one big thing that i discovered is that the java that is installed  
> with fedora core/planetccrma is not working with SwingOSC. Apparently  
> I'm not the first person to notice this, what works is to have sun  
> java installed instead of gcj which is what's normally used here.
> can we get sun java into the planetccrma dist or is that somehow  
> proprietary?

The jdk is not redistributable so I can't package it until it has been
"freed". The jre is, I think, redistributable but the fine print I read
a long time ago had stuff about liability and similar words that I can't
accept. 

-- Fernando


> finally got it working:
> 
> 1) downloaded JRE 6 from
> http://developers.sun.com/downloads/top.jsp
> - you get the JDK actually.
> 2) (i had to change the .bin file to +x)
> sh jre-6*whatever*-i586.bin
> 3) sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/ 
> jre1.6/bin/java 2
> 4) sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --config java
> 4.5) java -version
> java version "1.6.0_06"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_06-b02)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 10.0-b22, mixed mode, sharing)
> 
> 5) /home/me/.sclang.sc    file now has:
> 
> SwingOSC.java="/usr/java/jre1.6.0_06/bin/java";
> SwingOSC.program = "/home/jes/SwingOSC/build/SwingOSC.jar -t 57111 -L
> -h 127.0.0.1:57120";
> g = SwingOSC.default;
> g.doWhenBooted({ arg serverGui,searchHelp;
> //serverGui =  s.makeGui;
> // searchHelp = Help.searchGUI;
> Server.local.makeGui;
> Server.internal.makeGui;
> });
> g.boot;