Fwd: Python and XUL: Luxor XUL Python Example Suite

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> From: Jon Schull <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue Nov 25, 2003  12:44:12 PM US/Eastern
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Python and XUL: Luxor XUL Python Example Suite
>
> Hi,
>
> I've spent an interested hour reading some of your presentations and  
> reading up about XUL and luxor.   I can't get to Hello World, and  
> suspect that I'm not alone.  I'd like to test the python example at  
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2003-March/ 
> 002084.html but I can't figure out how.
>
> So my questions:
>
> a) what am I missing?
> b) isn't there a way of providing a quickstart recipe that suitable  
> for intelligent but ignorant people like me?   (even a recipe for  
> gettng less ignorant more efficiently than just wading through the  
> impressive but vast amounts of literature available).
> .......
>
> Here's a little more about my experience.
>
> I'm a reasonably good python programmer, and don't know java.  From  
> what I've read I need not know java to use luxor and XUL to use jython  
> to build UIs and apps with the system.
>
> I'm also a new migrant from winXP to OS X10.3.
>
> I did download luxor-1.0-b8 beta  and double clicked on  
> luxor-1.0-b8.jar.jar; the Jar Launcher puts up an error message:    
> "luxor-1.0-b8.jar" couldn't be launched.  Check the Console for  
> possible error messages.

>
> The Console is nowhere to be seen.
>
> I also fired up an X11 terminal and did this
>> [Jon-Schulls-Computer:downloads/luxor-1.0-b8/bin] jis% java 
>> ./luxor-1.0-b8.jar
> but I got this:
>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
>> //luxor-1/0-b8/jar
>
> .....
>
> Thanks for any comments or suggestions.
>
>
> _______
> Jon Schull, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Information Technology
> Rochester Institute of Technology
> [email protected] 585-738-6696