Thanks, Sean!



I rebuilt the project under Eclipse, this time choosing to put the .class 

files in the same directory as the .java files and it came up fine.



Cheers,

David





>From: Sean Luke <[log in to unmask]>

>Reply-To: ECJ Evolutionary Computation Toolkit              

><[log in to unmask]>

>To: [log in to unmask]

>Subject: Re: running the Console (from within Eclipse)

>Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:47:09 -0500

>

>ECJ expects certain image files to be located next to the class file  which 

>is loading them.  Most likely you've set up Eclipse to move the  class 

>files to a separate build directory, leaving the image files  behind.  You 

>can fix this by either:

>

>	- getting Eclipse to leave the class files right next to the java  files 

>(and image files)

>	- modifying the GUI code to look for the images somewhere else

>	- deleting the GUI code (just delete the 'display' directory)

>

>Sean

>

>On Jan 24, 2008, at 5:28 PM, David vun Kannon wrote:

>

>>Hi,

>>

>>I've just started with ECJ, and I'm trying work through the  tutorials. 

>>Working within the Eclipse framework, I can get the  tutorials to run 

>>fine, but trying the Console I got this:

>>

>>Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException

>>	at javax.swing.ImageIcon.<init>(Unknown Source)

>>	at ec.display.Console.getPlayButton(Console.java:181)

>>	at ec.display.Console.getJToolBar(Console.java:163)

>>	at ec.display.Console.getJContentPane(Console.java:525)

>>	at ec.display.Console.initialize(Console.java:508)

>>	at ec.display.Console.<init>(Console.java:96)

>>	at ec.display.Console.main(Console.java:494)

>>

>>Did I not grab everything I was supposed to when I downloaded ECJ 16?

>>

>>Thanks,

>>David vun Kannon