<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6001.18226" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>First of all congratulations on the fantastic project !</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Finally a project for end-users. To promote ontology-usage we'll need such tools very much.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a few questions.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><U>1. About the local installation.</U></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I run on Vista pro and followed the installation instructions.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Where it goes wrong:</FONT></DIV> <OL> <LI>Install the latest version of SWI-Prolog (we have tested with v5.6.61) <BR><EM><FONT face=Arial size=2><U>This version is not available anymore, thus I worked with the newest (5.6.64) and the older one available (5.4.7)</U></FONT></EM> <LI>Create <CODE>ape.exe</CODE> as explained on the <A href="http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/downloads/">Attempto Downloads page</A>. <BR><EM><FONT face=Arial size=2><U>When I run "make_exe.bat" the command windows appears shortly and disappears without making the exe file. I tried this with versions 6.0.081023 and an older version 080506. Can the file ape.exe be put at disposal somewhere or sent by e-mail plse ?</U></FONT></EM> <LI>Copy <CODE>libjpl.jnilib</CODE> (<CODE>libjpl.so</CODE> on Linux, <CODE>libjpl.dll</CODE> on Windows) into the Protégé root directory. You can find this file among the libraries that come with your SWI Prolog installation. The installation paths differ among operating systems and SWI Prolog versions. For example, in MacOS X Tiger/PPC, this file is located in <CODE>/opt/local/lib/swipl-5.6.61/lib/powerpc-darwin8.11.0/</CODE> <FONT face="Courier New"><BR></FONT><EM><FONT face=Arial size=2><U>There is not file called libjpl in the package. I copied however a file libpl.dll into the root dir of Protégé. Hope this would be OK.</U></FONT></EM></LI></OL> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><U>2. About the view via Protégé 4.0</U></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have an ontology with links to other ontologies (same domain).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When I load the tab, it takes a long while, understandably, I hope to shorten it with the local installation but... I don't see the main ontology. First I have to unload the linked ontologies, after that the main ontology is accessible.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM><U>Can I switch in one way or another without deleting the linked ontologies ?</U></EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am eager to learn about the syntax and feel enormously gratefull to be able to use this nice tool allready. A big thanks ! </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hope the performance is still increasing and the development continued and look forward for answers.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Your tool is certainly if not the main, one of the main factors of succes and acceptance of the ontology I'm working on.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kind regards</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Eddy Vanderlinden</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>