Pelegant for Windows - 32 or 64-bit?

[soliday]

I'll look into getting this to work without needing this path name conversion.

[soliday]

I have modified the code for the next release so that it will not longer need to convert it to short path name without spaces.

[lewellen]

Bob,

Thanks for the help!

Turns out 8dot3 was enabled for c: but disabled gloablly (?!) so there was the problem.

Changed the global registry flag, reinstalled, and working great.

Cheers,

- John L.

[lewellen]

Hi, Bob,

I just found one other glitch with the 64-bit sddsplot when attempting to generate image files. I'm posting it here rather than under "bugs" because this is where we started the discussion. Anyway...

sddsplot -col=f,FFTfrequency L01-BCb.fft -device=png,onwhite -output=L01-BCb.png

will make a file called L01-BCb.png, but it has zero length.

if I use sddsplot to display the plot, and then try to use File --> Save As... to save as a png, I again get a zero-length file and the plot window closes all by itself (bombs).

The issue appears limited to png files; I can create PostScript and eps files with no issues, either from the command line or from the plot window. I can work reasonably well with eps files so this isn't a pressing issue for me; but I thought you should know about it.

Cheers,

- John L.

[soliday]

Interesting. Can you send me the file you are trying to plot? I am able to create png files both ways without a problem on my system with the 64bit version of sddsplot. Btw, the official (non-beta) version of Elegant for 64bit windows is now on the software download page.

[lewellen]

Hi, Bob,

Sure. I'll send it momentarily.

Cheers,

- John L.

[soliday]

This is working for me, but I am running a slightly newer version of sddsplot. Can you download and install
http://www.aps.anl.gov/asd/oag/download ... it-x64.msi
I really don't think this will solve the problem but at least I know you are running the same version as me.

If you still have the problem can you download Dependency Walker from:
http://www.dependencywalker.com/depends22_x64.zip
Unpack this and run the depends.exe program.
Then use it to open c:\Program Files\APS\SDDS ToolKit 64\sddsplot.exe
Save click "File->Save As" change the type to "Text (*txt)" and send me the resulting output file.
Using this I might be able to see if there is something different about your system causing the problem.

[lewellen]

Thanks, Bob.

At the moment, I have some MaRIE runs queued up and running; since using eps files is a workable alternative at the moment, I'd rather not interrupt them right now, but I will try this by the end of the week.

Cheers,

- John L.