Hero Designer and the eeePC

[lobsterGun]

I posted this in the wrong forum. So here it in, this time in the right place.

Hi all, I just got HeroDesigner v2.39 running on my ASUS eeepc running the standard Xandros Linux. Here's what I did.

First, I transfered my copy of HD v2 from my PC to my eee PC. I did this by zipping it up wth 7zip (winzip should work too) and copying it over via USB thumb drive

Next I unpacked it into my home directory. This created the Herodesigner directory.

I then unpacked the update.jar file into a temp directory and copied out the file about.jpg. I edited it with an image editor reduced the hieght of the image so that it was small enough to fit on the eeepc's screen (resolution is only 800x480). I then dropped the updated about.jpg file into the Herodesigner directory. This step isn't strictly necessary, but I like to watch the progress bar load.

I created a file called go.sh that will start HeroDesigner. The looked line the following:



#!/bin/sh
java -classpath .:update.jar:Hero\ Designer.jar:lax.jar com.hero.HeroDesigner


I changed the mode on go.sh to make it executable by issuing the command

chmod +x go.sh


To launch HeroDesigner I just open up the file manager, navigate into the HeroDesigner directory, and doubleclick on go.sh.

I've found that HeroDesigner (v2) works like a champ on the eeepc. The only problem is that some of the Dialog boxes are initially bigger than the size of the eee's diminutive screen. Fortunately they are resizable and (for the most part) remember their sizes once they have been shrunk to the size of the screen.

(This same process should work for v3, but you may need to tweak it a bit for version peculiarities.)

[Trebuchet]

I'm glad it can be done on the eeePC. Those look by pretty neat little computers.

Of course, I can run HDv3 from a USB flash drive as long as the host computer has Java 6 installed, which makes it pretty cross-platform. It should work on Windows, MacOS, or Linux.

[Shagrat]

I posted this in the wrong forum. So here it in, this time in the right place.

Hi all, I just got HeroDesigner v2.39 running on my ASUS eeepc running the standard Xandros Linux. Here's what I did.

First, I transfered my copy of HD v2 from my PC to my eee PC. I did this by zipping it up wth 7zip (winzip should work too) and copying it over via USB thumb drive

Next I unpacked it into my home directory. This created the Herodesigner directory.

I then unpacked the update.jar file into a temp directory and copied out the file about.jpg. I edited it with an image editor reduced the hieght of the image so that it was small enough to fit on the eeepc's screen (resolution is only 800x480). I then dropped the updated about.jpg file into the Herodesigner directory. This step isn't strictly necessary, but I like to watch the progress bar load.

I created a file called go.sh that will start HeroDesigner. The looked line the following:



#!/bin/sh
java -classpath .:update.jar:Hero\ Designer.jar:lax.jar com.hero.HeroDesigner


I changed the mode on go.sh to make it executable by issuing the command

chmod +x go.sh


To launch HeroDesigner I just open up the file manager, navigate into the HeroDesigner directory, and doubleclick on go.sh.

I've found that HeroDesigner (v2) works like a champ on the eeepc. The only problem is that some of the Dialog boxes are initially bigger than the size of the eee's diminutive screen. Fortunately they are resizable and (for the most part) remember their sizes once they have been shrunk to the size of the screen.

(This same process should work for v3, but you may need to tweak it a bit for version peculiarities.)


My first post here :) I was excited to find this little snippet of information and tryed it with ver 2.42 but get an error :(


Exception in thread "main" Java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/Hero/HeroDesigner

I would love to get this working asap if anybody can help :)

EDIT... spotted my own spelling mistake had a capital H on hero :) looks like its working ! Woot


Shagrat