[news.eclipse.dsdp] Re: Is NAB for real?

[doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Doug Abbott)]

Thanks, Doug.  I finally did get a response from Shigeki and got the 
problem resolved.  Turns out there's an update site for NAB that hadn't 
been publicized.  I used that and everything is fine now.

Doug

Doug Gaff wrote:

> Hi Doug,

> I've forwarded your message to Shigeki, the project lead for NAB. I will 
> find out what he's not actively monitoring the newsgroup.

> The problem you're having is that you need to install the MWT widget 
> library. Shigeki can supply some instructions.

> Doug Gaff



> "Doug Abbott" <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:6323485b54483e605392e696abe8e268$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm getting a little desperate here.  I would really like to play around
> > with the Native Application Builder, but can't seem to get it installed
> > correctly.  The last two messages in the NAB newsgroup are both from me,
> > seperated by about 3 months, and neither one was answered.
> >
> > NAB doesn't appear to be available from an update site so I just
> > downloaded the zip file and unzipped it in my eclipse directory.  I also
> > downloaded and installed WideStudio/MWT per the instructions.  NAB-related
> > JAR files show up in the features and plugins directories, but Eclipse
> > doesn't seem to know anything about it.  The NAB perspective doesn't show
> > up.
> >
> > A clue emerged when I opened the PDE perspective to check the Plug-ins
> > view.  Two errors appeared:
> >
> > Unable to find feature.xml in directory:
/usr/local/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.nab.mwt.native.win32_0.9.9.200806181757.jar
> > Unable to find feature.xml in directory:
> > /usr/local/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.nab.mwt_0.9.9.200806181757.jar
> >
> > The relevant system information is:
> > eclipse.buildId=I20080617-2000
> > java.version=1.6.0_03
> > java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
> > BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86, WS=gtk, NL=en_US
> > Command-line arguments:  -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86 -clean
> >
> > So why are those two archives missing feature.xml and what do I do about
> > it?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Doug