MapTool Slow a bit

chrobry · Post by **chrobry** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:42 am

OK First of all, now that I got TookenTool setup, life is DARN GOOD!

However I do have one question, when you start having maps/token on, everything slows down. I have alright system with 1.5gig of RAM, with a decent 128MB Video card.

I do realize that Java is not known for its speed, but is there a way to speed things up?

Thank you guys!

Post by **trevor** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:58 am

Could you save your campaign file and email it to me ?

That will let me see where the bottlenecks are.

Post by **trevor** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:38 pm

K, found one specific slow down that was introduced recently regarding token movement. It's drawing waaaaay too many times when you have snap to grid on. I've fixed the offending code, and it's snappy again.

Look forward to it in build 104, which will be released in a day or two.

Thanks chrobry for finding that and bringing it to our attention.

As a side note, chrobry installed Java 6 which has a rebuild rendering pipeline, and he reports that MapTool screamed ! So if any of you want to live on the bleeding edge feel free to install Java 6 (which is in beta now).

brisingre · Post by **brisingre** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:01 pm

could you give a link??

Post by **trevor** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:08 pm

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/download.jsp

brisingre · Post by **brisingre** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:20 pm

thanx

jay · Post by **jay** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:00 pm

I downloaded the beta version of Java 6 and then tried Webstart for map tool. I got the following exception:

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java.lang.NullPointerException
	at java.awt.Container.addImpl(Unknown Source)
	at javax.swing.JToolBar.addImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Container.add(Unknown Source)
	at net.rptools.maptool.client.ui.MapToolFrame.createToolboxPanel(MapToolFrame.java:567)
	at net.rptools.maptool.client.ui.MapToolFrame.<init>(MapToolFrame.java:277)
	at net.rptools.maptool.client.MapTool.initialize(MapTool.java:122)
	at net.rptools.maptool.client.MapTool.main(MapTool.java:514)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

I'm not able to download anything at all on java 5

Post by **trevor** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:40 pm

The stack trace would suggest it is failing when instantiating RadiusTemplate.class. The code suggests you should also be getting an error dialog.

jay · Post by **jay** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:02 am

I'm not sure what is going on with that either since it will run fine from the zip file. I tried it again this morning and I found this in the console:

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java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: net/rptools/clientserver/hessian/client/ClientConnection

When I cleared my webstart cache and restarted the application I got the first problem again. I am getting a little error message box saying

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Failed in constuctor of tool: class net.rptools.maptool.client.tool.drawing.RadiusTemplateTool - java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

This looks to be a message from maptool, unfortunately it doesn't print out the exception that caused the InvocationTargetException. Maybe we should create some sort of debug log for info like that? Or does one already exist?