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Re: X window requirement for batch jobs: not just for plotting [message #78522 is a reply to message #78485] Wed, 30 November 2011 12:57 Go to previous message
David Fanning is currently offline  David Fanning
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Ed Hyer writes:

> OK, I have done some debugging, and found that what is happening is
> that a call to MESSAGE wants, for some reason, to use DIALOG_MESSAGE,
> and it wants an X window despite an upstream call in the same routine,
> with no graphics in between, to SET_PLOT,'Z'. Has anyone seen this
> problem before?

I've seen the problem many times, but not this particular
manifestation of it. I'm not terribly surprised, though,
are you? This is a graphics program that is designed to
be run on a graphics computer. Why wouldn't you assume
there might be a graphics window around when you needed
one?

Cheers,

David



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