Plot2Kill 0.02

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:22:37 +0000, dsimcha wrote:

> == Quote from Lars T. Kyllingstad (public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet)'s article
>> > Yea, I tried to use it on *nix today and realized that.  This will
>> > get fixed soon.
>> >  In addition to the typo, I forgot that getting a font can return
>> >  null. I have no
>> > idea why it works on Windows.  Anyhow, I'll make platform-specific
>> > default fonts (using core X11 fonts on *nix and properly spelled
>> > Verdana on Windows) and as a last resort, if the default font doesn't
>> > exist, I'll make it just not render text instead of crashing the
>> > program.
>> So that was why it kept going SEG-V on me!  I tried it out earlier
>> today, but didn't have time to investigate too much.  It works fine
>> now, and I have the demo window up and running.  Will definitely use
>> for serious work tomorrow. ;)
>> -Lars
> 
> Fixed.  http://dsource.org/projects/scrapple/changeset/772

Cool, thanks! :)

 
> I fired up my barely-used Linux partition for this.  I knew it would
> come in handy.  I also kludged around the weird text cutoff bugs that
> only appear on Linux.  (I don't want to say I fixed it because I didn't
> address the root cause and I don't know what the root cause is.  My best
> guess is that on Linux the font measurements are slightly off.)
> 
> The most serious bug now, IMHO, is that there's no way to save plots to
> a file from a machine with console-only access, such as a supercomputer
> that you SSH into.  I don't know how to fix this.  Calling Main.init()
> on a machine with no windowing system borks everything.  Does anyone
> have any suggestions on how to fix this?

Even if you SSH into it, you can still run GUI apps remotely using X 
forwarding.  But if you're saying that the machine doesn't have X 
installed at all (do those still exist?), I have no suggestions.

-Lars