On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:22:37 +0000, dsimcha wrote: > == Quote from Lars T. Kyllingstad ([email protected])'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
