[protege-discussion] error displaying ontology using OntoViz

[Jennifer Vendetti]

Rajesh,

The error messages indicate that the Ontoviz tab can't find the dot 
executable.  If you are working on Windows, you might try adding the 
path to the dot executable to the "Path" environment variable.

Jennifer

Rajesh Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed OntoloViz following the directions at
>
> http://protege.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntoViz
>
> When I try to generate the graph of an ontology I have I get the 
> following error:
>
> java.io.IOException: CreateProcess: "C:\Program 
> Files\ATTGraphviz\bin\dot"  "C:\
> Documents and Settings\rajeshk\My 
> Documents\research\Protege\examples\GALS_1\GAL
> S_1.dot-input" -o "C:\Documents and Settings\rajeshk\My 
> Documents\research\Prote
> ge\examples\GALS_1\GALS_1.dot" error=3
>        at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
>        at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
>        at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(Unknown Source)
>        at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source)
>        at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
>        at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
>        at dfki.protege.ontoviz_tab.ExportDot.dot(Unknown Source)
>        at dfki.protege.ontoviz_tab.ExportDot.dot(Unknown Source)
>        at dfki.protege.ontoviz_tab.OntovizTab$9.actionPerformed(Unknown 
> Source)
>
>        at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
>        at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown 
> Source)
>        at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown 
> Source)
>        at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
>        at 
> javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(Unknown Sour
> ce)
>        at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
>        at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
>        at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
>        at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
>        at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
>        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
>        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
>        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
>        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
>        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
>        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
>        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
>        at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
>        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
>        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
>        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(Unknown 
> Source)
>
>        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown 
> Source)
>        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
>        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
>        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
>
>
> Can anyone help me out here? Thanks for any comments.
>
> Rajesh
>
>