Generating executable movies and emulation

An executable movie can be generated at any time by pressing the generate icon button on the left hand toolbar. The settings tab allows you to define what combination of applet, iappli and midlet is to be created. A progress bar will display and if any potential problems that were encountered a message panel will display. Usually these messages will be warnings of potential problems. Most typically: Note that layers with no events will not be included in the final movie and no movie will be generated if there are no events for any layer.

Emulation

The 'Emulate' menu option in the menu bar is a convenience function that allows the running of emulators (or browser) from within the editor. It also allows the setting of the command lines to run the emulators. It should be noted that the product does not come with emulators contained within the product. It is up to the user to download and install the required emulators. (Sun provides a free Midlet emulator at http://java.sun.com and DoCoMo provide emulators at http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp). Taking JAD and JAR file output and running these files outside of the editor is an alternative to using this feature.

The product performs emulation by running the command lines for emulators. The default command lines used by the product are provided as a convenience only and may not be correct. They can be edited in the 'Emulate options' dialog. They are suited to installations on windows machines using the emulators provided by Sun and DoCoMo with default installation directory names and should be modified according to individual configurations. Note that the product places the path of the file to run immediately after the command line supplied and if a space is expected before the path then a space should be appended at the end of the command line.

The product also provides three standard windows settings for running a movie as an applet. These allow the applet to be run by the Sun's 'appletviewer' tool, by MS Internet Explorer and by Netscape Navigator 6.

Emulation messages

After emulation as an iappli or midlet is complete the user can choose to display: It should be noted that the DOJA imode emulator will not display any non-error messages if execution is terminated by closing the execution window prematurely. Looping movies may therefore not show non-error messages. It is up to the emulator used which messages are classified as error messages and which are not.