Java question

[Janet]

Ive installed J2re1.3.1 on Mandrake 8.0 to run two programs Jap and Muffin. Both progs show the same error when loading but Jap runs OK. Muffin however loads but some of the options on the pull down menu dont load properly. For example the pull down menu adit has a preferences option which doesnt expand. It comes out as a minute box which will not maximise . The problem makes the prog unusable.It seems I have a config file problem. Any suggestions on how to handle this problem ??
Thanks

Below are the error messages :
1) Jap
[Janet@localhost Jap]$ java -jar jap.jar
Font specified in font.properties not found [--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]F

2) Muffin
Creating new configuration: default.conf
Font specified in font.properties not found [--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]

Muffin 0.9.3a running on localhost.localdomain port 51966
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/Janet/Muffin/autoconfig (No such file or
directory)

[Malakin]

This isn't overly helpful but I can tell you that the font errors aren't harmful so you can ignore them.

You could try "touch /home/Janet/Muffin/autoconfig", then run muffin and see what it says. This just creates a blank file in that location.

[error27]

well, you are missing the config file for one.

also, what kind and version of java are you running? is it blackdown, ibm, or sun java etc?

[demetrius]

I could be way off here, but according to your post you installed the JRE which is just the runtime environment for running java applications. According to the Muffin homepage it requires the the Java SDK which is a bit different. The JDK includes the runtime environment but also includes a full java development environment.

[edit] BTW, the font errors are also a result of installing the JRE without the SDK. The SDK includes some font that aren't included in the standalone JRE release but are defined in the font.properties file installed with the JRE. As was mentioned before those errors can be ignored as they shouldn't keep the program from running.

[ 05 September 2001: Message edited by: demetrius ]