Hello list, recently I installed OpenDX 4.1.0 from the SuSE CD-ROMs (SuSE 7.0) on a Linux machine here, but there are some oddities which didn't show up on AIX 4.2, for which I compiled the same version from the sources last summer. In general it seems to me that DX is more stable on AIX than on Linux. The major problems I have encountered yet are: - The Visual Program Editor doesn't work. It hangs right after firing it up, i.e. it is unusable. In contrast, it works perfectly under AIX. - The UI tends to hang if it encounters a problem; in particular, execution of my script starts immediately when invoking it, but it will hang if e.g. a database file specified in the File Selector (from the last session) does not exist anymore. This probably is related to the former problem, because on error the VPE is started automatically. - In some scripts the Color Editor shows the colormap with the wrong colours, in the same way as you sometimes see it in applications using a private colormap. I'm not sure in which respect this is really a problem of DX, but I didn't have this problem on my former IBM/AIX box. Are there known problems with certain graphics cards maybe? Remarkably, if I start DX remote on the AIX machine, the colour problem is the same, although it does work well when I am at the console of the AIX box.
I'd appreciate if someone could give me explanations or share workarounds/solutions. Are there maybe problems with libraries which could cause these failures? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Ruedas Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, J.W.Goethe University Frankfurt e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geophysik.uni-frankfurt.de/~ruedas/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
