Hi,

I have ifeffit and atoms running just fine on MacOS X, thanks to Francois' hard work figuring some things out and Matt's quick port of ifeffit.

1. Does anyone have Athena running?

Not yet. I'm still struggling with the perl/Tk part. I've tried twice, but haven't gotten it to work yet.

2. Is anyone able to run ifeffit from Terminal.app, as opposed to running it from an xterm? When I try this, I get an error message, "PGPLOT /xw: cannot connect to X server". When I do ps -aux | grep pgp I see a process

charlesb 3239 0.0 0.1 67316 672 std- S 0:00.04 /sw/pgplot/pgxwin_server -display :0.0

so clearly I need to something to tell terminal.app about the pgplot server? Anyone have advice on this? I just don't know where to look beyond this point.

Why do I care about this distinction? (1) Terminal.app supports cut/copy/paste, (2) terminal.app is scriptable, which means that you can define define macros, or use script menu to put in common command blocks. In principle, this means that you could use Applescript studio to control ifeffit from a mac-native gui.

Can you run any X applications from the Terminal.app? Assuming you can, here's a thought (I'll try this out too): From a 'real xterm' launch ifeffit and do a simple plot ~> ifeffit Ifeffit> testplot Ifeffit> quit This should leave the PGPLOT window up and alive and ready for the next connection. (If the PGPLOT window goes away when you quit ifeffit, setting environmental variable PGPLOT_DEV to '/xserve' should fix that). Then run ifeffit in a Terminal.App. This might/should be able to find and use the already-running PGPLOT window. It sounds kludgy, but if this works we can probably use it to rig something to auto-start PGPLOT from a non-xterm.

3. Has anyone run ifeffit using aquaterm?

I haven't tried. It looks interesting .... Bruce's suggestion: BR> #!/usr/bin/perl -w BR> use Tk; BR> use Ifeffit qw(get_scalar); BR> use Tk::Dialog; BR> my $x = get_scalar('etok'); BR> my $top=MainWindow->new(); BR> $top->Label(-text=>"Ifeffit sez etok=$x") ->pack(); BR> $top->Button(-text=>'Done', -command=>sub{exit})->pack(); BR> MainLoop; The Ifeffit part of this should work: #!/usr/bin/perl use Ifeffit qw(get_scalar); $x = get_scalar('etok'); print " Ifeffit sez etok=$x\n"; but, I don't have the perl/Tk working. To get 'use Ifeffit;' to work, this: cd ifeffit_1.0b/src/macosx make sudo make install cd ../../wrappers/perl perl Makefile.PL sudo make install should do the trick (ie, install Ifeffit.pm after installing the base library). This ought to build and install athena too. For what it's worth, python/Tkinter and gifeffit run OK for me. --Matt