Still can't get Slither to work :( [message #88307] |
Fri, 11 April 2014 09:50  |
jeffnettles4870
Messages: 111 Registered: October 2006
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Hi folks,
When I excitedly grabbed slither the day that Ronn announced it was now free, I couldn't get it to work b/c I was not running IDL 8.3. Well, I finally got to upgrade, so now I'm running IDL 8.3 on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine, but Slither still fails :(
This time I at least get an error message though! It's telling me it cannot find the Slither dll in the dlm directory. Except that the dll is in there :( Could this be some sort of issue with the fact that Windows now goes out of its way to keep you from reading stuff in the Program Files directory?
Any help appreciated!
Jeff
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Re: Still can't get Slither to work :( [message #88308 is a reply to message #88307] |
Fri, 11 April 2014 10:06   |
chris_torrence@NOSPAM
Messages: 528 Registered: March 2007
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On Friday, April 11, 2014 10:50:54 AM UTC-6, Jeff N. wrote:
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> When I excitedly grabbed slither the day that Ronn announced it was now free, I couldn't get it to work b/c I was not running IDL 8.3. Well, I finally got to upgrade, so now I'm running IDL 8.3 on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine, but Slither still fails :(
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> This time I at least get an error message though! It's telling me it cannot find the Slither dll in the dlm directory. Except that the dll is in there :( Could this be some sort of issue with the fact that Windows now goes out of its way to keep you from reading stuff in the Program Files directory?
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Try:
IDL> print, !dlm_path
And make sure it is looking in the correct IDL 8.3 directory. Maybe you set the DLM_PATH at some point in the past?
-Chris
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Re: Still can't get Slither to work :( [message #88481 is a reply to message #88308] |
Thu, 01 May 2014 11:01   |
jeffnettles4870
Messages: 111 Registered: October 2006
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Hi Chris,
Been busy for the past month so just getting back to this.
Unfortunately, checking !dlm_path was the first thing I checked (mostly b/c, well, it's the only thing i knew to do that might actually help!). That path is set correctly. Got any other ideas?
Thanks for your help!
Jeff
On Friday, April 11, 2014 1:06:44 PM UTC-4, Chris Torrence wrote:
> On Friday, April 11, 2014 10:50:54 AM UTC-6, Jeff N. wrote:
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>> When I excitedly grabbed slither the day that Ronn announced it was now free, I couldn't get it to work b/c I was not running IDL 8.3. Well, I finally got to upgrade, so now I'm running IDL 8.3 on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine, but Slither still fails :(
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>> This time I at least get an error message though! It's telling me it cannot find the Slither dll in the dlm directory. Except that the dll is in there :( Could this be some sort of issue with the fact that Windows now goes out of its way to keep you from reading stuff in the Program Files directory?
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Re: Still can't get Slither to work :( [message #88518 is a reply to message #88517] |
Mon, 05 May 2014 11:56  |
chris_torrence@NOSPAM
Messages: 528 Registered: March 2007
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On Monday, May 5, 2014 12:17:50 PM UTC-6, Jeff N. wrote:
> On Thursday, May 1, 2014 4:59:22 PM UTC-4, yuxi...@gmail.com wrote:
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>> please check the post (April 15) on the old thread "New free DLL for calling Python from IDL!"
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> i've tried putting the slither dll's in a different directory and updating my dlm_path. Still doesn't work. My feeling is that it has something to do with my python installation...mostly b/c I can't imagine what else it could be.
Did you try the Anaconda distribution? That worked flawlessly for me on both Win7 and MacOS X.
-Chris
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