I have run into an error that appears when starting the application.

I had just installed Max v 4.6.3, leaving jitter 1.6.2 untouched. This worked fine. I then installed “java_app_platform_sdk-5_02-windows.exe”. After this, the following occurs: i start max and it loads fine until it needs to startup Jitter, where it stops at a “Stack overflow” error message. Following its instructions and restarting from the edit menu does not help, and the DSP-status window for example, is not responding. Note that this happens before the application even finishes starting up, so it cannot have been caused by any of my patches.

I uninstalled the java app platform sdk, max, and jitter. I deleted the Cycling74 directory. Even deleted all entries I can find in the registry that contain the string “Cycling”.

Still, after reinstalling Max/MSP and Jitter, the above happens. I even attempted reverting to Max version 4.6.2, but it didn’t help. Finally, I also tried starting MAX without having jitter installed, this worked, but I need jitter, so it is not an option…

Could you please help me with fixing the installation?

Best regards,
Ilias Bergstrom

And I suspect it has something to do with Jitter because when I uninstall it, Max/MSP works fine.

At the moment I’ve just set it up on a new computer, having given up on the one I was using for MAX & Jitter…

It must have something to do with the Java developer package I installed, but I cannot revert to a clean system so as to recreate it, nor would i like to risk ruining my other, functioning system either :)

So somehow, during startup, the thumbdrive is scanned, and for some weird reason it crashes… but as i said, this is before i ever even get the chance to load a patch!

> Did that, and cleared the registry from every key containing the
> key “cykling” as well :)
>
> At the moment I’ve just set it up on a new computer, having given
> up on the one I was using for MAX & Jitter…
>
> It must have something to do with the Java developer package I
> installed, but I cannot revert to a clean system so as to recreate
> it, nor would i like to risk ruining my other, functioning system
> either :)

To clean out MaxMSP 4.6.x entirely, remove these items:
~/Library/Preferences/Max 4.6 Preferences
../Library/Frameworks/MaxAPI.framework
../Library/Frameworks/MaxAudioAPI.framework
../Library/Frameworks/MaxJSRef.framework
../Library/Frameworks/JitterAPI.framework
../Library/CFMSupport/MaxCFMAdaptor and MaxAudioCFMAdaptor
/Applications/MaxMSP 4.6

Then:
- Install Max
-> launch Max: does it work?
- if it launch successfully Install Jitter
-> launch Max

ej

only for clarification, I did not find these files 

> ../Library/Frameworks/MaxAPI.framework
> ../Library/Frameworks/MaxAudioAPI.framework
> ../Library/Frameworks/MaxJSRef.framework
> ../Library/Frameworks/JitterAPI.framework

in the ../Library/Frameworks folder on my Powerbook, they are here

/Applications/MaxMSP 4.6/MaxMSP.app/Contents/Frameworks/…

Is that right ?

regards

reinHOLD

> in the ../Library/Frameworks folder on my Powerbook, they are here
>
> /Applications/MaxMSP 4.6/MaxMSP.app/Contents/Frameworks/…
>
> Is that right ?

That’s right, those Framework might still be there from Max 4.5 though.

ej

I think it’s a java-problem, personally. I have had Jitter crash on
startup for a while, until I found out that I needed to roll back to an
older version of Java.

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/

Hope this helps,
Andreas.

> The original message clearly stated that the poster was a windows
> user…

You’re right… Anyhow, the problem comes from “bad files in the
search path”.

> I think it’s a java-problem, personally. I have had Jitter crash on
> startup for a while, until I found out that I needed to roll back
> to an older version of Java.
> http://java.sun.com/products/archive/

This problem is fixed with Max 4.6.3.

ej