Hi Jerry,
I read your reply to Alan and that indeed makes it more complicated
to determine what is going wrong. I am trying to get some help from
people who know more about the OS X environment than I do.
Regards,
Arjen
On 2012-08-23 11:22, Jerry wrote:
> On Aug 23, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Arjen Markus wrote:
>
>> Hi Jerry,
>>
>> On 2012-08-23 08:46, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jerry:
>>> Do you have success with any other X application? The reason I ask is
>>> the above error message may simply mean that X is badly installed on
>>> your platform. Of course, if X were badly installed on Linux it would
>>> be catastrophic since X is so important on that platform, but my
>>> understanding is that X is not very important on Mac OS X. Therefore,
>>> on that platform you might have a bad X installation and not know
>>> about it (except by running some classical X applications such as
>>> xterm, xeyes, oclock, etc.)
>> In addition to Alan's suggestions, you could try the following:
>>
>> 1. Start Tcl/Tk's wish
>> 2. Type the command:
>> pack [button .b -command {puts Hello} -text Hi]
>>
>> This should bring up a simple pushbutton with the label Hi and
>> when you press it, the text Hello is printed in the console window.
>> (Type "exit" to stop wish)
>>
>> If the traditional X programs and this wish example work, then
>> we can conclude that something is wrong with the way you start
>> the PLplot examples, though I can not see what is wrong. Unfortunately
>> I have no OS X machine at my disposal, so I can only make guesses
>> as to what is going on/wrong.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Arjen
>
> Hi Arjen,
>
> This works exactly as you describe except it runs as a native Aqua
> application, not as an X application. See my more extensive comments to Alan.
>
> Jerry
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