I'm having a problem getting started it seems. I've downloaded the Arduino environment, unzipped it, and launched arduino.exe, but after a few seconds I get an error message saying "An error occurred while starting the application." In addition, I have a Java process sitting in my task bar.
Any ideas? I'm willing to bet Java is not installed correctly on my machine, but I'm hoping someone can confirm this.
Sorry, I was meaning to put that info in the original post, but I was rushing to bed.
I'm running Windows 7.
I actually tried downloading the ZIP file a second time as I was a lil suspicious something was not right when the ZIP file took AGES to unzip. Something like 20 minutes! I downloaded the ZIP a second time, and the same thing happened. Finally unzipped, ran the EXE, and same error message.
I'll wip Java off the machine tonight (at work now), and put it back on. Hopefully that fixes it.
Windows 7 does take a ridiculously long time to unzip Arduino. 7zip is free and much, much quicker. You can download 7zip over a slow internet connection install it and use it to unzip Arduino faster than Windows will unzip it.
I have seen errors from the process failing on machines that are taking so long, so maybe try using 7zip and see if that solves your problem.