[Scilab-users] ATOMS problem

Mon Sep 15 15:56:21 CEST 2014

Hi: I'm glad you solved your problem... I didn't answer before because i was sleeping... i think is night here when is day there...
I was going to tell you about the "traces" of old scilab, cause it happened to me that when i reinstalled  scilab a few time go i didn't need to reinstall atoms modules... but is good that you could solve it by your own! Congratulations!
Is not a waste of time, that's why in joined the list and may be you could help me sometime!
Greetings
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 19:46:30 +1000
From: dositheus41 at gmail.com
To: users at lists.scilab.org
Subject: Re: [Scilab-users] ATOMS problem

Back again with the source of the trouble!
I thought I had cleaned every remnants of Scilab before reinstalling it. Then I was baffled by the fact that the new install "remembered" to load Plotlib Toolbox 0.45. So some old Scilab history file was still left somewhere. I looked in ProgramData but there is no Scilab folder there (where any Scilab data should be IMHO!). So I did a search and after a rather long time the hidden data was found in C:/Users/Rene/AppData/Roaming/scilab-5.5.0. 
Once it was removed a fresh install of Scilab cleared all problems.
Sorry for wasting your time, Pablo. 
I had completely forgot that some programs use that AppData folder rather than the more standard ProgramData. 
I'll looked into the folder I removed to see what I did to cause ATOMS to cease functioning in such a bad way.
A lesson however to anyone "haunted" by (bad) actions they did in the past: Scilab never forgets!
It is still surprising that Scilab uninstall does not wipe out its entry in AppData!
Thank you and sorry again for your trouble.
René.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:10 PM, René Grognard <dositheus41 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Pablo,
I just downloaded a fresh copy of scilab-5.5.0.exe and installed it with Launch at Finish. This is what I got in reply: Startup execution:  loading initial environmentStart plotlib toolbox 0.45
Load macrosLoad helpWarning !!!
Scilab has found a critical error (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION)with "get" function.Save your data and restart Scilab.Warning !!!Scilab has found a critical error (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION)with "get" function.Save your data and restart Scilab.

Oddly it came with an empty graphic window. Perhaps uninstall Scilab didn't clean enough Scilab remants of previous disastrous sessions. I didn't dare do "exit", rather I clicked the option "x" to get out.
Next I'll wipe out all traces of Scilab and reinstall it again.
But meanwhile please find attached the atoms directory you requested in Word *,docx  and landscape format.
Thanks again.
René. 
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:04 AM, René Grognard <dositheus41 at gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for your reply, Pablo.
No I didn't change anything in my copy of Scilab. 
The last time I used actively ATOMS was to reload a corrected Matlab-like plotting library which unexpectedly had ceased to be compatible with the graphic module which comes with Scilab. As that compatibility was vital to my projects I reported it and it was soon corrected. So ATOMS was well behaved that last time I had to use it.
This week-end I just wanted to add maybe an image processor and was only trying to find what was available when I noticed that ATOMS didn't work anymore.
Yes I tried what you say, even directly inserting one of the examples from Help concerning the atoms package to be on the safe side. Scilab reported that the atoms package was not available and then a catastrophic error occurred. Unfortunately I failed to copy the error message in time. When I tried to exit Scilab instead relaunched itself into a loop repeating that last exit command. I could only terminate it with the Task Manager by ending the tasks faster than they were added to the list of running ones! Not easy winning that race...
Given your second e-mail I'll try to reinstall Scilab again and report back to you not trying any new trick: chat échaudé craint l'eau froide!
I fear that it might be related to a recent loadful of Microsoft automatic updates to my copy of Windows 7... 
Thanks again and greetings from Sydney where Spring is back!
René.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Pablo Fonovich <pablo_f_7 at hotmail.com> wrote:

Another idea: Can you tell us what is in the directory "/Program Files/scilab-5.5.0/modules/atoms" in your pc?

Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:53:30 +1000
From: dositheus41 at gmail.com
To: users at lists.scilab.org
Subject: [Scilab-users] ATOMS problem

Trying to use ATOMS to search and download a new module I get now (it worked before!):

  !--error 10000 

%st_e: Wrong value for input argument #1: not a valid field name.

at line      39 of function %st_e called by :  

at line      53 of function atomsSetInstalledList called by :  

at line      11 of function atomsGetHomeListboxElts called by :  

at line     227 of function atomsGui called by :  

("atoms") then atomsGui(); else disp(gettext("Please install atoms
while executing a callback

I uninstalled and reinstalled Scilab 5.5.0 to no avail. I even tried again as suggested on the web by installing it directly in C:\ but with the same error.
I tried some of the atomsXXX functions and got the message that package "atoms" was not available!
What is going on? I used ATOMS a lot in the past few years by just clicking its icon in the tool bar and without any problem.
(My PC is a HP ProBook 4730s under Windows 7. --- WIN32)
Thanks for any help!
René Grognard(Sydney, Australia)

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