| Posted 9/23/2009 11:47:03 | 1. |
Q: Can/should we renumber animals? A: No, please use our given animal numbering. The animal corresponding to A17 is the one described in A17.dat. If you renumber your animals our test software will certainly malfunction. |
| Posted 9/23/2009 11:47:50 | 2. |
Q: Does alignment matter in the table of animal-to-animal distances? A: No. In fact you should just align any way you like. Our checker needs to see “at least one space” between numbers (obviously) but can handle spaces, tabs and is indifferent to alignment. |
| Posted 10/1/2009 2:27:33 | 3. |
Q: Does the main method need to be in my ComparisonGUI subclass? A: No, it can be anywhere. But when you export your JAR, please specify which class is the "main class" on the third page of the "Export JAR" dialog. |
| Posted 10/1/2009 2:28:57 | 4. |
Q: How many arguments does main take? A: Two arguments. The first argument is the mode your program will run in, either "console" or "gui". The second argument is the path to a directory containing species .dat and image files. |
| Posted 10/1/2009 2:31:22 | 5. |
Q: Images for "selected" and "closely related" aren't displaying in the SWT graphical shell? A: This is a bug in our code. The work-around is to call selectCell(0) immediately before you call run(). Or, you can use the Swing shell. It doesn't have this problem. |
| Posted 10/9/2009 17:19:22 | 6. |
Q: When I run the test suite, I get a "class not found" error, but all of my classes are in the JAR? A: This seems to be a bug with the test suite. If this happens, please test your program's output instead, as described on the test suite page. |