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Tracker 5.1.2 now available
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Douglas Brown
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Hello Tracker users,

I've released a Tracker 5.1.2 upgrade that fixes some bugs, one of which caused an incorrect bare-bones menubar to be displayed after changing languages. I also added a mechanism to automatically update any cached Tracker library collections you may have to work with the new secure https protocol required by the physlets.org server that hosts Tracker.

To upgrade, click the green "Now available" button on the toolbar and choose Upgrade Now. If you don't see the button choose Help|Check For Upgrades.

Full installers are also available for Windows, Mac and Linux from both the Tracker home page (http://physlets.org/tracker/) and ComPADRE (http://www.opensourcephysics.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=7365).

If you plan to use Tracker in your courses this fall, please install this version in your labs.

Thanks!  Doug


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Re: Tracker 5.1.2 now available -
Ira Lee
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I am having trouble getting this vers of Tracker to run on MacOS 10.14.5. Has anyone been successful in getting this to run? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Looks like the install is having trouble invoking the embedded java environment (see attached error):


/Applications/Tracker.app/Contents/PlugIns/Java.runtime/Contents/Home/bin/java ; exit;
Usage: java [-options] class [args...]
           (to execute a class)
   or  java [-options] -jar jarfile [args...]
           (to execute a jar file)
where options include:
    -d32   use a 32-bit data model if available
    -d64   use a 64-bit data model if available
    -server   to select the "server" VM
                  The default VM is server,
                  because you are running on a server-class machine.


    -cp
    -classpath
                  A : separated list of directories, JAR archives,
                  and ZIP archives to search for class files.
    -D=
                  set a system property
    -verbose:[class|gc|jni]
                  enable verbose output
    -version      print product version and exit
    -version:
                  Warning: this feature is deprecated and will be removed
                  in a future release.
                  require the specified version to run
    -showversion  print product version and continue
    -jre-restrict-search | -no-jre-restrict-search
                  Warning: this feature is deprecated and will be removed
                  in a future release.
                  include/exclude user private JREs in the version search
    -? -help      print this help message
    -X            print help on non-standard options
    -ea[:...|:]
    -enableassertions[:...|:]
                  enable assertions with specified granularity
    -da[:...|:]
    -disableassertions[:...|:]
                  disable assertions with specified granularity
    -esa | -enablesystemassertions
                  enable system assertions
    -dsa | -disablesystemassertions
                  disable system assertions
    -agentlib:[=]
                  load native agent library , e.g. -agentlib:hprof
                  see also, -agentlib:jdwp=help and -agentlib:hprof=help
    -agentpath:[=]
                  load native agent library by full pathname
    -javaagent:[=]
                  load Java programming language agent, see java.lang.instrument
    -splash:
                  show splash screen with specified image
See http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/index.html for more details.
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