[Ifeffit] Demeter-devel MacPorts Athena issues & work-around

Fri Jul 4 11:11:10 CDT 2014

Dear Bruce & MacOS X Users,
Thanks for your help & your quick reply. I did not expect my altering one
character in the code to fix the problem -- I had just hoped it would tell
me if the Tip of the Day was indeed the culprit. I did as you suggested,
and the problem is completely fixed. Thanks!

Per your comment regarding Issue 2 -- I have attached two files, one with
the header removed (filename: '...NoHeader_exafsscan.dat'), and the other
with the header left in with #s commenting it out (filename:
'...Header_exafsscan.dat'). Note that these are transmission samples, with
I0 in column 56, and I1 in column 57.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Cheers,
Margaret Anne

------------------------------------
Margaret Anne G. Hinkle
Ph.D. Candidate
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis
Rudolph Hall
Campus Box 1169
1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
email: mhinkle at eps.wustl.edu
website: aqgeochem.wustl.edu

On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Bruce Ravel <bravel at bnl.gov> wrote:

> On 07/03/2014 06:54 PM, Margaret Hinkle wrote:
>
>> Issue 1. With the new demeter-devel Macports download, Athena freezes
>> upon opening. Opening up Athena via Terminal brought up perl5.16 -- I
>> could see the GUI, the Tip of the Day, and the Athena startup box, but
>> the system just froze. I had to force quit every time, getting the
>> following notice in my Terminal: 'Terminated: 15'. I had a feeling it
>> was an issue with the Tip of the Day popping up, so I edited the
>> Athena.pm file (in the UI folder), and edited line 197 from
>> ‘$app->show_tip ifDemeter->co->default('athena', 'tips');’ TO
>>   ‘$app->show_tip ifDemeter->co->default('athena', 'tip');’
>>
>> (honestly, I don't know enough about this code to be able to give it a
>> real option that would turn off the Tip of the Day as the default, so I
>> just hoped this would make the program give me general error in the GUI
>> but that Athena could still load). Luckily, my not-fix fix worked. I get
>> an error every time I open it, but after clicking 'OK', Athena behaves
>> just like normal. I hope you can use this information to provide a real
>> fix to the problem!
>>
>
> It *is* surprising that removing random characters from the source code
> didn't fix the problem!
>
> There is another way that you might have asked this question, something
> like, "I am having this problem with Athena and I am suspicious that the
> tips-of-the-day dialog is to blame.  Is there a way to disable it before
> starting Athena?"
>
> Look for the '[athena]' section of demeter.ini, which should be in
> '$HOME/.horae'.  Set the "tips" parameter to "false".  That will suppress
> the tips dialog.
>
>
>
>  Issue 2. I can only load data files into Athena if there are no headers
>> of any sort -- commenting out each header line with a # or % does not
>> work. When I try to load in a .dat file with a commented-out header, I
>> get the following error message in Terminal:
>> 'At line 436 of file iff_show.f
>> Fortran runtime error: End of record'
>> followed by Athena quitting itself.
>> This is an issue with both the regular Macports demeter download and the
>> demeter-devel download. These data files loaded in just fine to the old
>> iXAFS version of Athena, and on a PC. Is there a plugin I should be
>> using in the Demeter versions? If I delete the header, or load it in
>> from a .prj file, everything works just fine. So it is not huge issue,
>> as I do have a work around.
>>
>
> It is not reasonable to expect anyone on the list to understand your
> problem if you do not provide an example.  Without being able to reproduce
> a problem on my own computer, I can only speculate.
>
> Perhaps it has something to do with very long lines in the data file...
> perhaps something having to do with non-ASCII characters...
>
> B
>
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