Hey nightly-using monkeys,
when you update jMP the next time the update will happen in multiple steps and be quite extensive.
This is due to the fact that we now use our own build of the netbeans platform to be independent from NetBeans IDE releases. All updates now happen from our own update centers. Since I am using the “main-silver” branch of netbeans platform at the moment, jMP is now actually more up-to-date than the current NetBeans IDE beta release 
The update will probably require you to update and download multiple times in a row because the new update center information has to be updated before you can download the new base libraries. You might also have to resolve a conflict about junit libraries, they should be automatically downloaded by the resolve problems utility.
Let me know if you have any problems or see strange behavior in your jMP install so there wont be any problems in alpha-4, which is just around the corner 
Cheers,
Normen
Hmm… jMP restarted twice then seems to get stuck on:
Please wait until the installer discover plugins dependencies.
The bar stays at 0:00... I can only cancel at that point. I'll let it wait for a while and see how that goes.
There's a list of 20 plugins btw.
For me its just taking really long to resolve these, I hope you didn’t just force-quit jMP out of impatience? ^^ Remember the whole application is being updated, lots of single plugins.
I’m not forcing anything. 
Just waiting.
There’s no disk access, but the CPUs are at ~25% while usually jMP is well under 5% so I guess it is working even if the timer isn’t updating.
I wish that update window wasn’t app modal though, at least I could still work. 
Well, look out for any error messages, it was not like in the scope of half an hour but maybe 5-10 minutes altogether… However that was a blank alpha-3 install, I guess theres more to resolve when you updated regularly. And yes, it was at 0:00 for most of the time for me too…
Alright!
Took a while, but after cancelling once it went through. It DID take a while but it did.
Just got a list plugins warning that they were not signed. shrug There was A LOT! lol
Anyway. jMP is restarting now… Getting a warning about GLSL editor was not found. Disabled it and it started without a problem.
Alright, now I have a “Reference Problems” with jUnits. Fixed it and now all seems to be working as it should.
Thanks!
Cool, good to hear. The signing is a problem, we don’t have a key… We gotta investigate some ways to get a key as an OSS project or something, I don’t know if thats possible somehow…
Oh it wasn’t only jMP plugins, pretty much ALL of them were part of the warning. There was a HUGE list.
As far as the GLSL is concerned I have uninstalled it and when trying to install it, I get:
Warning - could not install some modules:
GLSL editor - The module named org.netbeans.modules.languages/0-1 was needed and not found.
Generic Languages Framework - The module named org.netbeans.modules.editor.lib/2 was needed and not found.
Hm, the GLSL editor uses a deprecated language recognition library, but its still kept in the platform per many requests, I can install it fine. I had to update its dependencies, did you update the library? Maybe you have to delete it once because you use some buffered file?
About the unsigned: Yes, thats because we build all plugins ourselves now.
Nope. I didn’t update or touch anything. Just followed the instructions…
mcbeth said:
tried several times and get this consistently even after uninstall reinstall
Does your jMP not restart by itself when the updates have been downloaded?
ok posted and deleted because I thought I jumped the gun a bit because the updating didn’t finish but, that below happen and the update seems to fail, I restarted more updates came but it doesn’t seem to work and got no further feedback. just blank canvases and panes
Warning - could not install some modules: OgreXML Tools - The module named com.jme3.gde.core/1 was needed and not found. Material Support - The module named com.jme3.gde.core/1 was needed and not found. LWJGL Applet Support - The module named com.jme3.gde.core/1 was needed and not found. Model Import Tool - The module named com.jme3.gde.core/1 was needed and not found. Simple SceneComposer - The module named com.jme3.gde.core/1 was needed and not found. Welcome Screen - The module named com.jme3.gde.core/1 was needed and not found. AssetPack Support - The module named com.jme3.gde.core/1 was needed and not found. Terrain Editor - The module named com.jme3.gde.core/1 was needed and not found. Desktop Executables Support - The module named com.jme3.gde.core/1 was needed and not found. NiftyGUI Support - The module named com.jme3.gde.core/1 was needed and not found. OgreXML Support - The module named com.jme3.gde.core/1 was needed and not found. Wavefront OBJ Support - The module named com.jme3.gde.core/1 was needed and not found. 3 further modules could not be installed due to the above problems.
sorry must have missed the response no it doesn’t restart by itself
yeah tried this didn’t work initially have the same errors as posted above but then I ran it again with admin privs it seems to start the way its supposed to so it would seem that permissions might be a big deal with this iteration, will see if it run on my user account when all updates are finished I’m having to run as admin for updates to be successful at this point…………apparently -.-
As said, I don’t have these problems on my Windows7 machine. 
Hi,
to give some good news.
I am using Windows 7 Home and all updates worked like a charm.
Had to resolve junit, but went all smooth. Good job
Pit
Same here. I’m on Win7 x64 and except for what I wrote earlier, no probs.
madjack said:
Same here. I'm on Win7 x64 and except for what I wrote earlier, no probs.
Win7 pro my self this didn't giving me problems until recently, dont understand why, but multi user support seems screwed up, the user files never gets copied to the local directory and kept tryin to reference admin user resource folder..... again a fresh alpha 3 install seems to work fine :? and then the updates mess things up again :?
The updates are stored either in the application folder or in a .jmonkeyplatform folder (probably in AppData or w/e the name is now on windows) one of these at least should have the right permissions and the IDE should use that folder… I keep asking that and get no answer, is there some tool on windows to check for the default permissions of the system disk and if they are set?