A few advices and hints for Opale's newbies

You may contact any developers at the following address: <developers@opale.tuxfamily.org>.You may also contact us on irc.tuxfamily.org (channel #opale)

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Opale's project has two CVS repositories, one for the library's development and its applications and another for the web site's development. The first one is located at subversions.gnu.org (/cvsroot/opale) and the second one at cvs.tuxfamily.org (/cvsroot/web)

Opale sources may be consulted at: http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/opale/Opale/ and more information about how to setup CVS with Savannah may be consulted here

Web site's sources may be consulted at:http://cvsweb.tuxfamily.org/cvs/Opale-WebSite/?cvsroot=web

Install a JDK if you still have not gotten it. A JDK is available on Sun's web site. As it is written in the FAQ section, do not use a 1.4 (or greater) JDK, use JDK 1.3.1. Although you may use Blackdown's JDK or gcj if you do not attempt to use or program SWING components. Be sure to have a proper editor such as VI or VIM, Emacs or Nedit.

Once this has be done, you are ready to download the last Opale's released which can be found here. Download it, uncompress it where you want and read the documentation. Try to use the library using this small program:

import opale.m2d.*;
public class TestOpale 
{
	public static void main(String args[]) 
	{
			OIJ repere = new OIJ(); 
			Point2D p1 = new Point2D(repere,1,2);
			System.out.println(p1);
	}
}

Those lines should appear once you have run it:

If you are unable to compile and execute the program your environment variables are probably not set correctly. Also try to use some scripts available for your platform inside the "utils" directory. For example, try to generate the complete API using the appropriate script.