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Posted by kamelie at Jan 20, 2011, 8:51:37 AM
confused   Installation on Win XP without admin rights
Hello,

I am happily using on my home machine (Linux Ubuntu) and I try to get is installed on my work laptop (WinXp) without the admin rights.

Here is what I have tried
- Use the EXE install package: Installation stopped because of lack of admin rights

- Use of Java webstart installation.
-- Installation when well and I have a menu option pointing to "C:\WINDOWS\system32\javaws.exe -offline "C:\Documents and Settings\Fincra\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\javaws\http\Dwww.sweethome3d.com\P80\AMSweetHome3D.jnlp"
-- I get the splash screen then nothing.
-- I could not find any log

- use of the jar file
-- launch by using the command "java -jar SweetHome3D-3.0.jar"
-- I got the splash screen and the following error message
20 janv. 2011 09:46:35 java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences <init>
ATTENTION: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root
0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(...) returned error code 5.
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: LUT h
as improper length!
at javax.imageio.ImageTypeSpecifier$Indexed.<init>(Unknown Source)
at javax.imageio.ImageTypeSpecifier.createIndexed(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.png.PNGImageReader.getImageTypes(Unknown Sour
ce)
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.png.PNGImageReader.readImage(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.png.PNGImageReader.read(Unknown Source)
at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(Unknown Source)
at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(Unknown Source)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.swing.PlanComponent.createCustomCursor(Unknown
Source)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.swing.PlanComponent.createCustomCursor(Unknown
Source)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.swing.PlanComponent.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.swing.SwingViewFactory.createPlanView(Unknown S
ource)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.viewcontroller.PlanController.getView(Unknown S
ource)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.viewcontroller.PlanController$SelectionState.mo
veMouse(Unknown Source)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.viewcontroller.PlanController$SelectionState.en
ter(Unknown Source)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.viewcontroller.PlanController.setState(Unknown
Source)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.viewcontroller.PlanController.<init>(Unknown So
urce)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.viewcontroller.HomeController.getPlanController
(Unknown Source)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.swing.HomePane.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.swing.SwingViewFactory.createHomeView(Unknown S
ource)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.viewcontroller.HomeController.getView(Unknown S
ource)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.HomeFramePane.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.HomeFrameController.getView(Unknown Source)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.HomeFrameController.displayView(Unknown Source)

at com.eteks.sweethome3d.SweetHome3D$2.collectionChanged(Unknown Source)

at com.eteks.sweethome3d.model.CollectionChangeSupport.fireCollectionCha
nged(Unknown Source)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.model.CollectionChangeSupport.fireCollectionCha
nged(Unknown Source)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.model.HomeApplication.addHome(Unknown Source)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.SweetHome3D.run(Unknown Source)
at com.eteks.sweethome3d.SweetHome3D$3.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

Java version used is
java version "1.5.0_07"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_07-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_07-b03, mixed mode)

Any idea how to proceed?

Thanks

Posted by hansmex at Jan 20, 2011, 9:30:33 AM
Re: Installation on Win XP without admin rights
Cyril,

Did you read the FAQ where it says:
When I run Sweet Home 3D, only a splash screen appears during a few seconds. What happened?

Hans
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Posted by Puybaret at Jan 20, 2011, 9:38:11 AM
Re: Installation on Win XP without admin rights
The Java 1.5.0_07 version you use is quite old. It would be nice if you could update it. That would require admin rights though, but try to convince the administrator of the computer that version 1.5 (or Java SE 5.0 which is the same) reached its end of life a while ago.
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator

Posted by kamelie at Jan 20, 2011, 8:48:34 PM
Re: Installation on Win XP without admin rights
Hi,

Problem was actually the JRE. It has been a struggle to find java distribution that does not update the registery nor for you to install in program file (typically forbidden when you are not admin).

I found that
http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/java_portable

And now it works!