| IDL via MacX [message #1579] |
Fri, 10 December 1993 13:22 |
hbh
Messages: 2
Registered: December 1993
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Question -- Has anyone out there tried running IDL through MacX? Any luck?
Background -- I am trying to run IDL on a dec 5000 (ULTRIX V4.3A Rev. 146).
My workstation is a quadra 700 (sys 7.0.1), and I am using MacX 1.1.7.
The window manager on the dec 5000 is twm. I am working in an color
rooted window because some of the astronomical image processing
software I want to use (written in IDL) requires a window manager
better than MacX. I have 5000 K allocated to MacX.
Problem -- IDL is just not working - for example, I try to run the
xinteranimate example in the IDL Basics book (pg. 42).
(1) I get failures like:
% Compiled module: XREGISTERED.
X Toolkit Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "wheat"
% X windows protocol error: (BadValue - integer parameter out of range).
"Wheat" is a color in MacX - I get the same error message no matter
what color I try. The protocol error worries me more than the warning.
(2) There is not enough space (in MacX????) to evaluate the xinteranimate
for 40 graphs like the example shows, so I am only doing 10. How to do more?
(3) Even with the limited 10-graph animation, the window I get to control
xinteranimate has just sort of outlines of black boxes, with nothing in
them. No text, so slider.
(4) When I move the cursor into the defective control window, twm fails
on the dec5000 with a segmentation violation.
The other IDL software has a similar problem, in that the moment I move
the cursor into the active area of the image processing window, twm
fails with a segmentation violation.
Summary -- I am not sure whether my problem is MacX, or IDL, or some
nasty combination. Frankly, I'm sort of at a loss how to proceed.
So I ask again -- Has anyone out there tried running IDL through MacX?
Any luck? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Heidi hbh@astron.mit.edu 617-253-7568
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Heidi B. Hammel (hbh@astron.mit.edu) MIT 54-416 EAPS Dept.
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