JES 5.0 beta 1
Pre-release
Pre-release
Development snapshot of JES 5.0. (The final release of JES 5.0 is expected by the end of August 2014.)
- Supervisor: Mark Guzdial
- Primary Developer: Matthew Frazier
- Contributors: Christine Alvarado, Stephen Bryant
Changes in Beta 1
- Added an "Open Recent File" menu.
- Reformed the restrictions on filenames for JES programs.
- Improved the layout for printing programs.
- Removed the code that automatically types function names when the user selects them from the "JES Functions" menu.
- Moved all of JES's Python application code into the
jes
package, instead of the top-leveljes/python
. - Removed the
JESLogBuffer
logging system. - Added code to the launchers to detect .jar files automatically, instead of hard-coding them.
- Audited and documented third-party software licenses.
- Improved the appearance of the Help browser on non-Metal skins.
- Fixed a Jython 2.5 upgrade bug that caused movie frames to appear out of order.
- Fixed a couple of bugs introduced by changes in previous alphas.
The full changelog from JES 4.3 is given in jes/help/JESChangelog.txt.
Available Downloads
jes-5.0b1-linux.tar.gz
: A .tar.gz file for Linux or UNIX. Just unpack it and runjes.sh
.jes-5.0b1-macosx.zip
: A .zip file which contains aJES.app
package for Mac OS X. It should work on any Mac of any CPU architecture.jes-5.0b1-windows.exe
: An .exe file that installes JES on a Windows system. It includes a Java Runtime Environment, which will be installed automatically if necessary.jes-5.0b1-windows-java-included.zip
: A .zip file for Windows, including a Java Runtime Environment for JES. Just unzip it and double-clickJES.exe
.jes-5.0b1-windows-java-required.zip
: A .zip file for Windows, just like thejava-included
ZIP file but without the JRE. (This makes it much smaller.)jes-5.0b1-testkit.zip
: A package containing the JES test suite and demos, to use for testing.