> 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.
This is no problem for me (same version 4.1.0, but from the SuSE 7.1 CDs). > - 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. Again, this just works for me. > - 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. This problem I also observe. In addition, I can't operate sliders, dial buttons and similar user interface objects to set a variable to a certain value. I got a reply from the list (see archive about a month ago, ask me if you can't find it) saying, that this is a bug that has been fixed. I forwarded this information to SuSE, who hopefully will fix all this in the next release. I suppose it would help though if this request is being repeated from other sources. Regards, Hans ---------------------------------------------- Hans Fangohr High Performance Computing Group Department of Electronics and Computer Science Building 59, Level 3, Room 3237 and Quantum and Functional Matter Group Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ Great Britain [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------
