Plot2Kill 0.02
Lars T. Kyllingstad
public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet
Tue Jul 20 00:53:02 PDT 2010
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
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