[jmsl] jmsl_plugins

[jmsl at music.columbia.edu]

Thanks for your patience and persistence Paul.
I think you've got what it takes to get deep into JMSL & JSyn; mere 
mortals would have balked much earlier
Looking forward to hearing some DrumWood and Sine music!
Nick

jmsl at music.columbia.edu wrote:

> Hi Nick,
> oakly doakly...Just got confused with the folders vs packages and 
> locations, in the midst of an intensive JSyn/JMSL learning/eval session.
>  
> all ok now:-)
>  
> thanks for the help,
> paul
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* jmsl-bounces at music.columbia.edu
>     [mailto:jmsl-bounces at music.columbia.edu] *On Behalf Of
>     *jmsl at music.columbia.edu
>     *Sent:* Friday, 21 January 2005 11:40 AM
>     *To:* jmsl at music.columbia.edu
>     *Subject:* Re: [jmsl] jmsl_plugins
>
>     Hi Paul
>
>     "jmsl_plugins" is just a folder in the classpath.  It is not a
>     package.
>     When Java is given a folder named, say KLASSES in its classpath,
>     it does not consider "KLASSES" to be a package name.  If you have
>     a class named MyClass in a package mypackage, then Java will look
>     for a folder named mypackage inside the KLASSES folder. In there,
>     it will expect to find a file called MyClass.class
>
>     So the folders listed in the CLASSPATH are just top level folders
>     within which fodlers correspond to package names.
>
>     You should change your package names back to "patches" or
>     something instead of "jmsl_plugins"... but just to illustrate what
>     is happening, Java would expect a folder named "jmsl_plugins" (the
>     package) to be inside a folder called "jmsl_plugins" (the
>     classpath folder).
>
>     You should:
>     1) Change the SynthNotepakcages back to "patches"
>     2) Make a folder in jmsl_plugins called "patches"
>     3) Copy DrumWoodFM.class into the "patches folder
>
>     That will work
>
>     For more, see
>     http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/tooldocs/win32/classpath.html
>     Read the section called "Understanding the class path and section
>     names"
>
>     Let me know how it goes!
>     Nick
>
>     jmsl at music.columbia.edu wrote:
>
>>     Hi Nick,
>>      
>>     I changed the package of the DrumWoodFM to just be jmsl_plugins.
>>     I was assuming (here I be an Ass:-) that as long as the plugins
>>     were in the jmsl_plugins directory and conformed to the correct
>>     interface they would be scanned.
>>     Or...you could have a directory, such as patches, under this if
>>     you wished.
>>      
>>     I just tried another export and have a version of DrumWoodFM in a
>>     patches subdirectory but Eclipse does not seem to like sub
>>     directory includes.
>>     I'm also a little confused about the jmsl_plugins directory. This
>>     is also a package name if you are developing plugins, right?
>>     Eclipse recognises it as such and automatically adds it as a
>>     package name if you drop something in there.
>>      
>>     Cheers,
>>     Paul
>>      
>>
>>         -----Original Message-----
>>         *From:* jmsl-bounces at music.columbia.edu
>>         [mailto:jmsl-bounces at music.columbia.edu] *On Behalf Of
>>         *jmsl at music.columbia.edu
>>         *Sent:* Friday, 21 January 2005 10:57 AM
>>         *To:* jmsl at music.columbia.edu
>>         *Subject:* Re: [jmsl] jmsl_plugins
>>
>>         Hi Paul
>>
>>         First a quick question:
>>
>>         jmsl at music.columbia.edu wrote:
>>
>>>         Contents of jmsl_plugins folder (added via eclipse
>>>         properties as a class folder from another project) are:
>>>         a copy of SineSynthNote and an exported DrumWoodFM from wire.
>>
>>         If these were exported from Wire then they are in a package
>>         called "patches"
>>         So your "jmsl_plugins" folder must contain a folder called
>>         "patches"
>>         The "patches" folder should contain two files:
>>         DrumWoodFM.class
>>         SineSynthNote.class
>>
>>         Is this the case?
>>
>>         Thanks
>>         Nick
>>
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