Host Help requested by Java beginner

Hi

I use Windows XP

I have been using Eclipse and getting the latest version of the host from the repository. I confess I understand little of what I am doing as I am just following some helpful information in the forum parrot fashion and up until recently all seemed well.

The JRE system library is jre1.5.0_15

I have just checked out the latest version and thought that every thing was OK apart from three messages:-

[java] GenericStepperMotor - dud axis id: 88
[java] GenericStepperMotor - dud axis id: 89
[java] GenericStepperMotor - dud axis id: 90


However I have just read Adrian's blog from the 7th of November that has a screen shot of the Bot Console shown also in the instructions here:-
[dev.www.reprap.org]

My Bot Console has only 4 buttons and is missing a number of controls from the window.

In the past when this sort of thing has happened I have had exception errors and have tracked down the issue but this time I am at a loss.

Can anyone give me a clue as to how I can discover why I have a different console display. Is it be related to the Java version I am using or maybe the download?
Or could I have a wrong component in my Eclipse set up?
Any help greatly appreciated as I would like to try the latest G code generation contained in the host.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/21/2008 02:19PM by Ian Eagland.

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Regards

Ian

I saw the "dud axis" messages too. It seems to be in GenericRepRap.loadMotors(). It's creating three NullStepperMotor objects like this:

motorX = new NullStepperMotor('X');
motorY = new NullStepperMotor('Y');
motorZ = new NullStepperMotor('Z');

The problem is that NullStepperMotor superclass GenericStepperMotor is expecting an integer that's either 1,2 or 3 (for x,y and z). I found I could get rid of those messages if I changed the code to:

motorX = new NullStepperMotor(1);
motorY = new NullStepperMotor(2);
motorZ = new NullStepperMotor(3);

I also noticed that the latest reprap.properties.dist has a stray semicolon on the InterLayerCooling line. That got copied over to my reprap.properties file and the only way to fix it was to edit reprap.properties by hand.

Correction: Both GenericRepRap and Simulator have this problem.

I was going to tidy this up when I did a bunch of janatorial updates recently, but Adrian said that he was going to rewrite/remove that bit so there was no need.

David

Many thanks.

That fixed the error message.

However I still have the real problem outlined earlier in that my Bot Console has a number of buttons missing and I have no idea why.

Any clues anybody?

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Regards

Ian