ChemDraw failing inside IJC

I’m trying to set the default editor to ChemDraw inside of
IJC.

Using the startup option -J-Dijc.molecule-editor=Chemdraw it doesn’t work, can you
help or explain what is going on? 

I am able to use other startup option correctly (e.g.
startup.window).

I am using a Win 7 64 bit machine with ChemBioDraw Ultra
12.0 and IJC 5.10.1. 

INFO [com.im.ijc.sketchreg.chemdraw.bridge.ChemDrawBridge]:
Loading Chemdraw bri

dge library (cdbridge.dll)...

INFO [com.im.ijc.sketchreg.chemdraw.bridge.ChemDrawBridge]:
Cannot load ChemDraw

 intergation library

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: C:\Program
Files\ChemAxon\InstantJChem\instantjc

hem\modules\lib\cdbridge.dll: Can't find dependent libraries

        at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native
Method)

        at
java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)

        at
java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)

        at
java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)

        at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(Unknown
Source)

[catch] at
com.im.ijc.sketchreg.chemdraw.bridge.ChemDrawBridge.<clinit>(ChemDraw

Bridge.java:31)

        at
com.im.ijc.sketchreg.chemdraw.ChemdrawFactory.isValid(ChemdrawFactory

.java:50)

        at
com.im.ijc.sketchreg.SketchRegistry.getFactoryFromFile(SketchRegistry

.java:165)

Perhaps this is due to the known issues in
5.5.0, May 2011,  a problem with ChemDraw. 

http://www.chemaxon.com/instantjchem/Release_Notes_Cumulative.html#5.5.0

Known issues

Thanks,

Jon

Hi Jon,

Yes, I think you have hit on the problem.

Cambridgesoft do not provide a 64 bit version of their DLL, and we currently can't find a work around to this.

Tim

Tim,

I followed a suggestion to try running a 32 bit version of IJC on my 64 bit windows machine and ChemDraw was working after some light testing.   So this is a possible work around.  

My concern was that a problem occurs in IJC that is very hard to recover from.  

To reproduce"

1. Install both 64 bit and 32 bit IJC on my machine in different locations (Program Files and Program Files (x86), respectively)


2. Run 32 bit IJC and select Chemdraw as the selected molecule editor.  Tools>>options>>Miscellaneous area>>Molecule view/edit tab>>Molecule Editor section.


3. Close the 32 bit IJC and open 64 bit IJC.


4. Open a grid view or form view of data tree that has a structure or open the Molecule view/edit tab in the options panel.  


5. The following error occurs:

An error has occurred. However, the system should continue working.

Check Instant JChem log file located in your C:\Users\jonlee\AppData\Roaming\.instantjchem\ijc_5_10\var\log folder for more details.

java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.im.ijc.sketchreg.SketchRegistry.<init>(SketchRegistry.java:93)

at com.im.ijc.sketchreg.SketchRegistry.<clinit>(SketchRegistry.java:43)

Caused: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError

at com.im.ijc.widgets.table.editors.StructureTCEditor.<init>(StructureTCEditor.java:95)

at com.im.ijc.widgets.table.AbstractWBTable.createTableCellEditorForField(AbstractWBTable.java:104)

at com.im.ijc.widgets.table.WBTable.setEditorAndRendererForColumn(WBTable.java:582)

at com.im.ijc.widgets.table.WBTable.createDefaultColumnsFromModel(WBTable.java:624)

at javax.swing.JTable.tableChanged(Unknown Source)

at javax.swing.JTable.setModel(Unknown Source)

at javax.swing.JTable.<init>(Unknown Source)

at javax.swing.JTable.<init>(Unknown Source)

at com.im.ijc.widgets.common.table.ResizableTableImpl.<init>(ResizableTableImpl.java:31)

at com.im.ijc.widgets.table.AbstractWBTable.<init>(AbstractWBTable.java:143)

at com.im.ijc.widgets.table.WBTable.<init>(WBTable.java:158)

at com.im.ijc.widgets.table.WBTableWidget.setFields(WBTableWidget.java:237)

at com.im.ijc.widgets.table.AbstractTableWidget.bind(AbstractTableWidget.java:201)

at com.im.ijc.widgets.table.WBTableFactory.restoreWidget(WBTableFactory.java:59)

at com.im.ijc.widgets.common.GenericWidgetFactory.restoreWidget(GenericWidgetFactory.java:47)

at com.im.ijc.formview.xml.DesignerHandleWidgetPersister.readElement(DesignerHandleWidgetPersister.java:207)

at com.im.df.api.util.xml.BasicPersister.read(BasicPersister.java:1027)

at com.im.df.api.util.xml.BasicPersister.readObjectPolymorphic(BasicPersister.java:1157)

at com.im.ijc.gridview.io.GridViewConfigPersister.readElement(GridViewConfigPersister.java:56)

at com.im.df.api.util.xml.BasicPersister.read(BasicPersister.java:1027)

at com.im.df.api.util.xml.PersisterRegistry.load(PersisterRegistry.java:98)

at com.im.df.api.util.xml.PersisterRegistry.load(PersisterRegistry.java:81)

at com.im.df.api.util.xml.XMLUtils.loadBean(XMLUtils.java:117)

at com.im.ijc.gridview.GridViewTopComponent.loadTableState(GridViewTopComponent.java:242)

at com.im.ijc.gridview.GridViewTopComponent.createTableWidget(GridViewTopComponent.java:222)

at com.im.ijc.gridview.GridViewTopComponent$1.phase2InAWT(GridViewTopComponent.java:186)

at com.im.commons.progress.BackgroundRunner$3.run(BackgroundRunner.java:149)

at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(Unknown Source)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)

at org.netbeans.core.TimableEventQueue.dispatchEvent(TimableEventQueue.java:162)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)

at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)

[catch] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

Hi Jon,

it looks this is a bug which is probably caused that these two installations (32-bits and 64-bits) are sharing the settings directory.  I will look at it soon and will improve the error handling for this special use case.

As workaround I think you can use own userdir for each installation (directory where options are stored). So options won't be shared between your two installations. You can start Instant JChem with userdir switch, e.g.:

c:\Program Files (x86)\ChemAxon\InstantJChem\bin>instantjchem.exe --userdir c:\ijc32

Petr