[Mesquitelist] Bugs in Mesquite?

[Wayne Maddison]

Sylvan's problem arose because one of his characters had more than 
two states.  The Pagel94 calculations require binary characters 
(states 0 and 1 only).  Mesquite has a user interface bug, in that it 
should have gracefully warned the user that the character couldn't be 
used instead of the generating the exception.  We'll fix that.

Wayne

At 8:33 AM +0200 29.9.2008, Sylvain Razafimandimbison wrote:
>Dear Mesquite users,
>
>I am using Mesquite for the first time and find it very handy. What I 
>really want to do is to run a correlation of analysis of the matrix 
>attached to this email using Page94 model. Unfortunately, I keep 
>getting the following alert message: "A command could not be 
>completed because an exception occurred (i.e. a crash; class 
>java.lang.ArrayindexOutOfBoundsException). If you save any filess, 
>you might best use Save as.... in case file saving doesn't work 
>properly". I am desperately need  help because I have been stuck on 
>this for a month. I wonder if my problem has to do with the number of 
>taxa I have.
>Best regards,
>Sylvain
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>Sylvain Razafimandimbison, Ph.D
>The Bergius Foundation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, SE-10504, 
>Stockholm,
>Sweden
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>Mailing address: Department of Botany, Bergius Foundation, SE-10691, 
>Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
>
>
>
>
>On Sep 28, 2008, at 7:44 PM, Wayne Maddison wrote:
>
>>  OK, no need to get into a Mac versus PC flame war.  For what it's
>>  worth, Mesquite in the old days (ca. 1998-2003) behaved a bit better
>>  on Macs (there was one particularly nasty menu bug in Sun's Java on
>>  Windows).  Then for several years (ca. 2003-2006) the speed was much
>>  better under Windows, and Mac Java had several glitches in graphics.
>>  For the last couple of years Mac OS X and Windows seem about equally
>>  good at running Mesquite.
>>
>>  Does anyone have comments about installing or running Mesquite under
>>  Vista?  Has it worked well for you, or are there "issues"?
>>
>>  Wayne
>>
>>
>>
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>>    & Director
>>            Beaty Biodiversity Museum
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>>    University of British Columbia
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--------------------------------------------------------
Wayne Maddison
  Professor and Canada Research Chair
          Depts. of Zoology and Botany and
          Biodiversity Research Centre
  & Director
          Beaty Biodiversity Museum
  6270 University Boulevard
  University of British Columbia
  Vancouver, BC  V6T 1Z4   Canada

email: wmaddisn at interchange.ubc.ca   FAX: +1 604 822-2416

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Salticidae:  http://salticidae.org
Tree of Life: http://tolweb.org
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Home page: http://salticidae.org/wpm/home.html