Hacking on JAS3
Tools
Building JAS3 from source requires Apache Ant.
wget http://apache.oregonstate.edu/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.6.5-bin.zip unzip apache-ant-1.6.5-bin.zip
Building
Obtaining the Source
JAS3
CVS checkout command.
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/jas co jas3
FreeHep
Much of JAS3's functionality is found in the freehep package.
CVS checkout command.
setenv CVSROOT :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/freehep cvs login [jascvs] cvs co -P freehep
cd freehep export FREEHEP=`pwd` tools/ant
Building JAS3 from Source
cd jas3 ant
Installing Freehep Dependencies
Make a file ~/jas3.properties containing the following:
FREEHEP=C:\path\to\freehep
On Windows, the path separators need to be double backslashes. (Check same for Unix???)
Now, run from JAS3:
ant extLibs
This pulls all FreeHep external library jars files into the jas3/extensions directory.
Plugins
Menus
Example of adding a File -> New -> Example Plugin command.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE MenuSystem SYSTEM "http://java.freehep.org/schemas/menus/1.0/menus.dtd"> <MenuSystem> <MenuBar id="mainMenu"> <Menu name="File" mnemonic="F" location="100"> <Menu name="New" mnemonic="N" location="50"> <Component type="default" icon="/classpath/to/examplePluginIcon.gif" name="Example Plugin" mnemonic="E" command="ExamplePlugin" location="1200"/> </Menu> </Menu> </MenuBar> </MenuSystem>