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Launching


There are a number of ways that Bay ROES. From a link on our web page, from the Java Web Start application or from a Shortcut on the desktop or elsewhere in your system.

Launching For the First Time

The first time you launch the application it will happen by clicking on the Launch tab on our Roes Launch page.  When you click the link Bay Roes will check to see if you have a proper version of Java installed on your machine.  If you do not, and you are on a PC, it will first download and run a Java Installer.  Mac's have Java built in but you need to have at least OS X and best to download the latest version of Java for the Mac.

Java Installer for the PC

Click on yes to install Java on your machine.  When you click yes the system will then proceed to download the Java installer.  This is a fairly large download and only happens the first time you run the application (unless you subsequently delete Java from your machine).

When the installer is downloaded it will run and the installer's Welcome dialog will be presented.

Click on the Next button to proceed with the installation. This will bring up the Java Licensing Agreement.

Click the Yes button to agree to the license and proceed with the installation.  The installer will then prompt you as to where you would like to install Java; offering you a default path.

Select you destination and click the Next button.  The installer will prompt you for which browsers the Java Plug-in should be the default Java runtime.

Select the browser that you intend to use and click the Next button.  At this point the installer will install all the necessary Java components into your system.

When it is complete Bay Roes will be launched using a component of the Java you just installed called Java Web Start.

Launching with Java Web Start

When the application is launched what actually happens is that a request is made to Java Web Start to launch the application.  The first thing that Java Web Start does is verify that you have the latest version of the Bay Roes application, if you don't it will download it. Since this is the first time you have launched the ROES Client application it will need to download it.  The ROES Client application is fairly small, about 1/2 megs and should download quickly to your machine.

When the application has been downloaded, Java Web Start will alert you to the fact that the application is requesting unrestricted access to your machine and ask you if you want to allow the application to run. 

In this case unrestricted access to your machine means that the application will be able to read and write files to your local machine.  This is necessary for the ROES Client to read your image files and save your preferences so click on the Start button to launch the application.

Launching the Second Time

The second time that you launch the ROES Client, Java Web Start will ask if you would like to create shortcuts to the application.

Launching thereafter

From this point on, if you created a shortcut, you can simply double click on the shortcut to launch the application. Now and again it's a good idea to "Launch" the application from the Bay Photo web site.



If problems are encountered during this process, please refer to the TroubleShooting section.


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