[Ifeffit] Installing gifeffit on linux

[Matt Newville]

Hi Peter,

Nope, this is not a silly beginner's mistakes.  And as Tsu-Chien
points out, it looks like a real problem between python2.3 and
Pmw1.1 when converting strings to integers.  I have not tried Pmw
with python2.3 on linux or OS X myself, but will investigate.  

--Matt

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Peter Pfalzer wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I recently installed the ifeffit package on my new Linux system. When I 
> installed the python wrapper (including gifeffit) I didn't notice any 
> error message, but trying to start gifeffit results in the following output:
> ---------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/local/ifeffit/bin/gifeffit", line 3, in ?
>      GIFeffit.GIFeffit(sys.argv[1:])
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Ifeffit/GIFeffit.py", line 
> 287, in __init__
>      self.createMenubar(self.root)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Ifeffit/GIFeffit.py", line 
> 393, in createMenubar
>      command=Command(self.read_cmndfile, self.root))
>    File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Pmw/Pmw_1_1/lib/PmwMenuBar.py", line 
> 155, in addmenuitem
>      self._addHotkeyToOptions(menuName, kw, 'label', traverseSpec)
>    File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Pmw/Pmw_1_1/lib/PmwMenuBar.py", line 
> 201, in _addHotkeyToOptions
>      underline = string.atoi(
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/string.py", line 220, in atoi
>      return _int(s, base)
> TypeError: int() can't convert non-string with explicit base
> -----------
> (and gifeffit is not starting, of course). Does anyone of you have an 
> idea what is going wrong? (I'm not a linux expert. Maybe this is a silly 
> beginners mistake!)
> 
> Thanks, Peter