Hello jAlbum Community,

I just tried to start the first time jAlbum 29. Unfortunately it does not start, instead I see this error report:

We're sorry. jAlbum is unable to start. Please pass this error report to support@jalbum.net
Thank you for your patience.

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.awt.Toolkit.getMenuShortcutKeyMaskEx()I
at se.datadosen.component.SmartTextComponentSupport.<clinit>(SmartTextComponentSupport.java:52)
at se.datadosen.component.SmartTextComponent.makeSmart(SmartTextComponent.java:53)
at se.datadosen.component.JSmartTextField.<init>(JSmartTextField.java:23)
at se.datadosen.component.JBackgroundTextField.<init>(JBackgroundTextField.java:37)
at se.datadosen.component.JDatePatternComboBox$DatePatternComboBoxEditor$1.<init>(JDatePatternComboBox.java:33)
at se.datadosen.component.JDatePatternComboBox$DatePatternComboBoxEditor.createEditorComponent(JDatePatternComboBox.java:33)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicComboBoxEditor.<init>(BasicComboBoxEditor.java:48)
at se.datadosen.component.JDatePatternComboBox$DatePatternComboBoxEditor.<init>(JDatePatternComboBox.java:29)
at se.datadosen.component.JDatePatternComboBox$DatePatternComboBoxEditor.<init>(JDatePatternComboBox.java:29)
at se.datadosen.component.JDatePatternComboBox.<init>(JDatePatternComboBox.java:21)
at se.datadosen.component.JDatePatternComboBox.<init>(JDatePatternComboBox.java:16)
at se.datadosen.jalbum.JPreferencesWindow.<init>(JPreferencesWindow.java:156)
at se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbumFrame.<init>(JAlbumFrame.java:177)
at se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbum.<init>(JAlbum.java:137)
at se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbum.main(JAlbum.java:388)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at se.datadosen.jalbum.Main.main(Main.java:45)

My configuration is, and jAlbum 28.1.5 works perfect with it:

Linux 5.14.21-150400.24.21-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Sep 7 06:51:18 UTC 2022 (974d0aa) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

java version "1.8.0_333"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_333-b02)

I use the ZIP version for java enabled systems. On the download page I saw this information:

For versions without bundled Java, jAlbum needs at least Java 18.
Check your java version here. If you don't have Java installed, get it here. It's free.

When I click on the link "get it here" I can download JRE 1.8.0_341. The error report is the same as with JRE 1.8.0_333.

When I download Java 19, as stated in the release notes, I find only J*DK* 19. Trying this leads to

tools/jdk-19/bin/java -Xmx4000m -DuseDesktop=true -jar tools/jAlbum_29/JAlbum.jar
Missing JavaFX runtime. Needed arguments: --module-path=$JAVAFX_HOME/lib --add-modules javafx.graphics,javafx.swing,javafx.web

Any help is appreciated.

Carsten

Hi. Unless you can use any of the .deb or .rpm archives, which includes an embedded JavaFX enabled Java, then it's unfortunately this much work to run jAlbum from the zipped version. Does your system not support either .deb or .rpm archives?

If a significant amount of Linux platforms lack the ability to unpack .deb and .rpm archives, then we will probably make available special versions of the Java runtime that's bundled with JavaFX or even pack jAlbum along with such a Java Runtime for the zipped version.

jAlbum 29 has moved from requiring Java 1.8 to at least v10 (v18 is fully safe). I will improve the error message for future releases.

We'll update our site and also make available either zipped versions of jAlbum that includes a Java Runtime or ready-package Java runtimes+JavaFX. What would you prefer?

Here are ready-packaged Java runtimes for running jAlbum that includes JavaFX (and excludes stuff jAlbum doesn't use):

https://jalbum.net/download/jre-19-x64.zip (Intel)
https://jalbum.net/download/jre-19-arm64.zip (Aarch64)