Windows7 64Bit: Sikuli disappears when Take Screenshot is clicked

[Jim Peers]

Sikuli version X-1.0rc3 (r905)
Operating System Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 (64-bit)

To reproduce:
- Start Sikuli
- Press the Take Screenshot button

Sikuli disappears but remains running. It can't be used at this point and must be shut down using Task Manager.

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

on 64-Bit Windows:
-- 32-Bit Java has to be used
-- Sikuli-IDE.bat or Sikuli-IDE-w.bat has to be used to start Sikuli IDE (the .exe cannot be used)

[Josef Schneider (ubuntu-lp)]

I have the same problem. I am using 32bit Java, Sikuli-IDE.bat and JRE 7u1.
Do I have to install Java 6?
Also, is there a way to make Sikuli output usable debug information?
The console window only contains "[info] locale: de_DE" and that is not very helpful...

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

@ Josef

--1. Java 7 currently not yet possible --- you need Java 6

--2. Try additional parameter -Dsikuli.console=false on the java execute line in Sikuli-IDE.bat. But this might not give you additional information when having startup problems.

[Light Templar (lighttemplar)]

Windows 7 sp1 x86, JRE6 and JRE7
I had this problem, until I wrote in .bat file the path to jre6. Thanks, RaiMan. It works without this parameter.

[na (dirkgb30)]

I cant get this working on windows 7 .... no matter what i try i cannot capture screenshots in sikuli, the program just dissapears and I have to use the task manager to close it.

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

@ na (dirkgb30)

pls give detailed information about your config (system, environment info, Sikuli installation, ...)
and some information on what you have done so far (How do you start Sikuli?)

[na (dirkgb30)]

Hi this is fixed now ... i had to uninstall all versions of java and re-install java 6 update 30.

I also had to change the set java in sikuli to this -
set JAVA_EXE="C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe"
in the bat file here -
C:\Program Files\Sikuli X\Sikuli-IDE.bat

Thanks for the support, very much appreciated !

[na (dirkgb30)]

by the way i was using windows 7 - 32bit with autoupdate enabled for both windows and java ... i suspect this problem occured due to a recent java update.

[Tedi Roca (tedi-roca)]

That's what I have in my sikuli-ide.bat to make it work on Windows XP 32bits + JAVA 6.

@echo off
set JAVA_EXE="C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe"
PATH=%PATH%;%~d0%~p0libs
%JAVA_EXE% -Xms64M -Xmx512M -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dpython.path="%~d0%~p0sikuli-script.jar/" -jar "%~d0%~p0sikuli-ide.jar" %*