Yanyun,
I am writing to inquire if Demeter(athena, artemis) works on a 64-bit
windows 8 system. I was trying to install Demeter 0.9.20 (downloaded from
http://bruceravel.github.io/demeter/)on my 64-bit windows 8 laptop. It
seems install well, at least there were no problems coming out during the
installation. However, when I opened Athena, and imported data (an EXAFS
data file end with .dat), there was no graphic window and no data was
imported into Arthena, which stopped me proceeding.
I had similar problems when I tried to install the Updater package
(version 0.9.18.2) after the 0.9.13 Installer package was installed.
Has anyone known if this problem was caused by the
incompatibility between Demeter and Windows 8, or because I didn't install
any supported package? Or how can I resolve this issue?
I do not have a Windows 8 machine of my own -- my employers do not
allow us to use Windows 8. So I am reliant upon reports from users.
I have been told by Windows 8 users that the 0.9.20 pre-release
packages work just fine. So I am suspicious (but by no means certain)
that your problem has more to do with your computer than with the
package.
I would need to see more information. Is anything written to the log
file?
http://bruceravel.github.io/demeter/pods/bugs.pod.html#Capturing_error_messages_from_Demete
Is anything written to the screen if you try to launch Athena from a
command window?
I also tried to install the source
code of demeter (version 0.9.20) following the instructions on
http://bruceravel.github.io/demeter/pods/installation.pod.html. All
procedures (step 1 to 4 in the section 'BUILD DEMETER AND ITS
DEPENDENCIES') went smoothly on my Ubuntu 14.04. When it was done, I typed
'athena' or 'artemis' in the terminal under the demeter directory and
athena or artemis were launched. But the graphic interface is still PGPLOT,
rather than GNUPLOT, although I have installed GNUPLOT before I built
demeter.
Hmmm ... I thought the build script recognized the presence of gnuplot
on the computer and configured things accordingly. I will look into
it.
In any case, it is easily changeable at any time. In Athena's main
menu, select Preferences. Open the Plot group and change the
value of the plotwith parameter.
Alternately, edit the demeter.ini file in $HOME/.horae with a text
editor, look for the [plot] group, and change plotwith to read
plotwith = gnuplot. (Spelling matters!)
Besides that, the data column window opened through 'open files' cannot be
imported, as there is no 'OK' button in the bottom left. Also, the athena
version shown is 0.8.061, rather than 0.9.20 which is the version number of
demeter I built. I was really confused about these working issues, stopping
me at the very beginning of data processing.
The word that you type at the command line to launch Demeter's version
of Athena is dathena. (When spoken out loud, the d is silent!)
During the years I was developing Demeter, the silent d allowed one
to have both the old and new versions of my software on the same
computer. Clearly, you have a copy of the very old version still on
your computer.
I recommend getting in the habit of typing dathtab ;)
B
--
Bruce Ravel bra...@bnl.gov
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Synchrotron Science Group at NSLS --- Beamlines U7A, X24A, X23A2
Building 535A
Upton NY, 11973
Homepage:http://bruceravel.github.io/home/
Software:https://github.com/bruceravel
Demeter: http://bruceravel.github.io/demeter/
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