[Scilab-users] problems with script execution from SciNotes

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 06/12/2012 14:29, Jeff wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running SciLab 5.4.0 on OS X 10.6.8 and am having a problem
> opening a figure from an sce script that I am working on. The text
> of the script is:
> 
> f = figure("figure_name", gettext("test window"),...
>     "BackgroundColor",[1 1 1],...
>     "Tag","test_window");
> 
> Nothing else except comments.
> 
> ̇When I execute the script from SciNotes I see no response. But if
> I execute from the menu "Execute->...file with echo" I do get my
> window to appear. I presume this is happening because the script
> contents is being executed from the echo'd console, but I could be
> incorrect on that.
Sounds like:
http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11994
http://mailinglists.scilab.org/Scilab-users-Compatibility-With-MAC-OS-Mountain-Lion-td4024747.html
As a workaround (as said in a message):
Go to preferences and in the scinotes tab, switch default file encoding
to iso-8859-1. I also switched the end-of-line to Unix.

Sylvestre