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It says that you do not have Java installed. You have to install the 32 bit version and use it.

[:D] thank you for the painfully obvious advice because:

I tried following the websites advice of not formally installing Java (yes 32 bit), and that didn't work so I did do the formal install and it still didn't work.

The silly thing I did was copying the Java setup exe file into the tracker folder, not the Java app itself.

I just needed that little nudge! [8D]
It works now!

Hi I might be a real dunce, but I've installed WitPTracker, Ive downloaded it, Ive tailored the properties file - now what???

How do I get it to launch, what does it do??

In the folder, where you have installed Tracker, should be a File called "WitPTracker.bat". Execute this and Tracker should start.
Be aware that you need Java 32-bit to be able to launch the Tracker.

edit:
In Regards to what it does, it tracks basically everything that is going on in your game.
The Tracker is especially useful for Japanese Industry, as you get your totals in one screen, without the need to get the numbers out of the game and add them up yourself.
For Example: You want to lookup how many engines of a specific types are currently produced or stocked and how many you are using for the production of Aircraft.
In the game without Tracker, you would need to go into the industry menu, add all Factories together that produce the engine, lookup which of your Aircraft are using this engine and when calculate the totals yourself.
With Tracker you get a Table for all available Engines and see in one screen how much you produce and how many of them are used during Aircraft Production and also by which Aircraft respectively.
And it also keeps track of this Information on a turn-by-turn basis, so you always have the most recent data.

This is just one Case where Tracker can be useful, it has also a lot of different information, so I would encourage you to explore a bit.

Thanks I'm really keen to use it -

I've double clicked on the bat file I get an error message telling me that cant load a 32bit .dll on a 64 bit platform.

For what its worth I'm running Windows 10.

I guess I'm going to have to do some searching around the forum to see how to make it work, but thanks for getting me a step further.

Cheers

Hano

ORIGINAL: Hano

Thanks I'm really keen to use it -

I've double clicked on the bat file I get an error message telling me that cant load a 32bit .dll on a 64 bit platform.

For what its worth I'm running Windows 10.

I guess I'm going to have to do some searching around the forum to see how to make it work, but thanks for getting me a step further.

Cheers

Hano

One more time, you must download the 32-bit Java and use it , not the 64-bit Java.

OK got past the 64/32 bit issue, now I'm getting the following, any suggestions?

Cheers

H

Check https://sites.google.com/site/witptracker/support towards the bottom.

Thank you

Any chance on an updated version?

Would like to see in the Devices Pool History to show a running turn column for Need by turn. Shows the progress you are making over time.

I have reinstalled Java to a new folder D:\Matrix Games\WitPTracker AE Release 1.10\Java and now I get the error:

D:\Matrix Games\WitPTracker AE Release 1.10>java -Xms384m -Xmx512m -jar "WitPTracker.jar"
Error: could not open `D:\Matrix Games\WitPTracker AE Release 1.10\Java\lib\i386\jvm.cfg'

D:\Matrix Games\WitPTracker AE Release 1.10>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

Well, the error message:

Error: could not open `D:\Matrix Games\WitPTracker AE Release 1.10\Java\lib\i386\jvm.cfg'

Says it can not find a file. Is it there? Did you put the lib subdirectory in with Java?

You are right, I am a blockhead. I had the file in the wrong folder. I fixed it and now I am getting the following error:

D:\Matrix Games\WitPTracker AE Release 1.10>java -Xms384m -Xmx512m -jar "WitPTracker.jar"
WitP Tracker AE tables loaded in 6 seconds
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at java.awt.image.DataBufferInt.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.image.Raster.createPackedRaster(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.image.DirectColorModel.createCompatibleWritableRaster(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.image.BufferedImage.<init>(Unknown Source)
at witptracker.MapPanel$Map.<init>(MapPanel.java:440)
at witptracker.MapPanel.<init>(MapPanel.java:229)
at witptracker.GUIMain.CreateAndShowGUI(GUIMain.java:920)
at witptracker.GUIMain$5.run(GUIMain.java:1042)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(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)

D:\Matrix Games\WitPTracker AE Release 1.10>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

For those out of memory errors:

For whatever reason it seems that Windows gets its memory allocation screwed up. Try closing everything and restarting your computer.

If that doesn't fix it, then try shutting down your computer completely, pulling the power cable and pressing the start button for about 10 seconds.
Restart and try again. Like I said, I don't know what happens but these have always fixed the problem for me. I have something like 450 turns loaded.


As a last resort, try and find what is running in the background that might be a problem. At least one person found dropbox was running in the background
and messing up the memory manager.

Also I have found the following memory settings work the best: ( do not copy and paste )

"c:\32 bit java\installation\bin\java.exe" -Xms768m -Xmx768m -jar "WitPTracker.jar"
pause

For those who want to know why:
1. The -Xms768m sets the initial memory allocation to 768MB
2. The -Xmx768m set the maximum memory allocation to 768MB

I think that by setting them both to 768MB that Java allocates enough memory for the entire operation at the start and there should be less memory manager allocation problems.

Thanks!! It is working now. [&o]

Great. [;)]

Hi all, does anybody has a working link for a working Java version for the tracker ? [&o]
On oracle everything seems hidden, or forbidden, or you have to have a professional account ? [&:]

I searched on Java download and got the main download page. https://www.java.com/en/download/

Near the bottom of the page is a link See all Java downloads select that

I select the Windows offline version.

thank you very much, i was lost on the Oracle page (and didn't even think to try the Java one), where the witptracker page sent me [&o]

I'm about a year into a campaign and Tracker just quit on me. It just hangs there at the command prompt, no error message. Any ideas?

Thanks!

I'm trying to setup and use tracker for the first time and I am having some problems.
I configured tracker to use the correct save file and game setup.
I downloaded java 6 and put it into a separate file and then pointed tracker to its location. when I run tracker from the batch file I get the following