[jmsl] score notation printing lilypond linux x11 display variable

[jmsl at music.columbia.edu]

Hi Hugo,

Linux needs a graphics context to run Java graphics like those done in 
JMSL Score.  As Douglas points out, when you are at a terminal doing it 
yourself, the screen display gives Java the graphics context it 
requires.  When you are running it as a cron job, there is no graphics 
context and your job dies.

There are two solutions:
1) Use PJA Toolkit to provide Java with a graphics context  ( 
http://www.eteks.com/pja/en/ ).  Your java command will require some 
startup paramters like I paste below:
/usr/java/jdk1.3.1_06/bin/java -Xbootclasspath/p:./pja_2.4/lib/pja.jar  
-Djava.awt.graphicsenv=com.eteks.java2d.PJAGraphicsEnvironment  
-Dawt.toolkit=com.eteks.awt.PJAToolkit 
-Djava.awt.fonts=/usr/java/jdk1.3.1_06/jre/lib/fonts 
-Duser.home=./pja_2.4 -classpath ./jmsl.jar:./jscore.jar:whateverelse 
mypackage.MyClass

The last time I checked, PJA toolkit worked with jdk 1.3x and not 1.4x  
That may have changed.  (what version of java is running on your Linux 
machine?)

2) Run Java in "headless" mode.  Something like:
java -Djava.awt.headless=true -classpath 
./jmsl.jar:./jscore.jar:whateverelse mypackage.MyClass
Your can learn more about Headless support at Sun: 
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/awt/AWTChanges.html#headless
Headless support was new to Java 1.4


One of these two approaches should work for you. Let me know how it goes!

Thanks
Nick Didkovsky

jmsl at music.columbia.edu wrote:

> Now I have a more JMSL - linux question. If I run my JMSL program by 
> hand everything goes well. However if I try to run the same program as 
> a cron task. (I'm using linux) then I get an interesting error:
>
> starting composition of piece 1115556901770
> creating score...
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
>         at com.softsynth.jmsl.score.Score.<init>(Score.java:59)
>         at com.softsynth.jmsl.score.Score.<init>(Score.java:113)
>         at com.softsynth.jmsl.score.Score.<init>(Score.java:119)
>         at 
> org.trebol.metaComposer.test02.MusicGenerator.createScore(MusicGenerator.java:43)
>         at 
> org.trebol.metaComposer.test02.MetaComposer.<init>(MetaComposer.java:20)
>         at 
> org.trebol.metaComposer.test02.MetaComposer.main(MetaComposer.java:28)
> Caused by: java.awt.HeadlessException:
> No X11 DISPLAY variable was set, but this program performed an 
> operation which requires it.
>         at 
> java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.checkHeadless(GraphicsEnvironment.java:159)
>         at java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:310)
>         at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:419)
>         at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:384)
>         at 
> com.softsynth.jmsl.score.view.NoteDimensionNameSpaceEditor.<init>(NoteDimensionNameSpaceEditor.java:27)
>         at 
> com.softsynth.jmsl.score.SelectionBuffer.<clinit>(SelectionBuffer.java:20)
>
> I do not know about this X11 DISPLAY variable but I don't know if the 
> solution is in the JMSL part, or in the linux side. Wonder if somebody 
> know the area.
>
>
> Well, seem there are a lot of questions. Sorry for that and I would 
> appreciate your help guys as usual.
> Thanks
> Hugo
>
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