[Ifeffit] Artemis error message

[Paul Fons]

The program icon for artemis and athena is a short applescript  
application (that in turn calls a unix script).  The source code is  
in the Ifeffit/applescript folder (the top level artemis is a  
compiled applescript applescript).  It goes like this:

display dialog "Please pick an output device" buttons {"X11  
graphics", "Aquaterm"} default button "X11 graphics"
set mydevice to the button returned of the result
if mydevice contains "Aquaterm" then
	do shell script "/Applications/Ifeffit/bin/runprog -q -m -x -a artemis"
else
	do shell script "/Applications/Ifeffit/bin/runprog -q -x -a artemis"
end if

As you can see depending on the answer received the script / 
Applications/Ifeffit/bin/runprog is invoked (with different  
options).  The shell script runprog is a bourne shell script (written  
by Matt and hacked by me).  The -m option just sets the environment  
variable PGPLOT_DEV to the value /AQT before ifeffit is invoked.  The  
option list is:

     -a)  app=$2 ; shift    ;;
     -x)  $open_x           ;;
     -q)  show_out=0        ;;
     -d)  show_dir=1        ;;
     -m)  device='/AQT'     ;;
      *)  files="$files $1" ;;


It should be possible to invoke artemis with an aquaterm graphics  
output by using the line "/Applications/Ifeffit/bin/runprog -q -m -x - 
a artemis" (without the quotes) in an X11 window.  Does this command  
work?  I should add that some of the linking is dynamic (at runtime)  
and by installing other dynamic libraries, it is conceivable that  
aquaterm could get confused (but of course, I should say that I have  
never seen this on my machines and I install a lot of stuff).

		Hope this helps,

					Paul


On Sep 14, 2006, at 9:34 PM, Stefano Ciurli wrote:

> Hello Matt,
>
>> Did you try using /Applications/Ifeffit/bin/feff6 as the preferred
>> feff executable in Artemis?  That's what the error message was
>> suggesting you try.
>
> I did try, no success
>
>> Can you verify that you have /Applications/Ifeffit/bin/feff6?
>
> verified, I do have it.
>
> In the meantime I made an interesting discovery that some of you  
> will certainly be able to explain:
>
> If I launch Artemis using the double click on the application icon  
> I DO get the error message and feff does not run, regardless of  
> which application I choose for the graphics
>
> However:
>
> If I launch the program from the terminal window, I do not get the  
> question on whether to choose Xwindow or Aquaterm, the default  
> being apparently Xwindow PGPLOT, and everything runs smoothly.
>
> So, what is the origin of the error message that I get when I  
> launch the program from the icon?
>
> Stefano
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