[Scilab-users] Cannot start Xcos

[Stefan Du Rietz]

This line in my loadsci.sce is the culprit:

   r = input("usb2data? [n] ", "s");

The following lines don't matter. This must certainly be a bug?

Regards
Stefan


On 2016-08-12 16:23, Stefan Du Rietz wrote:
> But why can I launch Xcos after running my loadsci.sce(!) if I have
> launched it before? Does it remember something from the first launch
> that makes it tolerant during the second launch to what I have done in
> loadsci.sce?
>
> Can you give me a hint?
>
> Regards
> Stefan
>
>
> On 2016-08-12 15:29, Paul Bignier wrote:
>>
>> You're welcome!
>>
>> I don't know what is in that loadsci.sci (sounds more like a .sce by
>> the way) but if it is a personal file I'd start looking into it ;)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> On 08/12/2016 03:06 PM, Stefan Du Rietz wrote:
>>> Paul,
>>> thank you very much for your help. Generally it is one's own fault
>>> when programs don't behave as expected ... So I started Scilab with
>>> all the same toolboxes but without my loadsci.sci and then I could
>>> start Xcos! But the strange thing is that if I then ran loadsci.sci
>>> from scilab's command line,
>>>
>>> -->exec(SCIHOME+"/loadsci.sci", -1)
>>>
>>> Xcos could still be started!
>>>
>>> Am I haunted by some evil ghost?
>>>
>>> Stefan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2016-08-12 11:53, Paul Bignier wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Stefan,
>>>>
>>>> You are launching Xcos properly, but this number of toolboxes looks
>>>> suspicious to me, one of them may be interferring.
>>>>
>>>> Can you please disable their autoload and try to launch Xcos? If it
>>>> works, you may want to load them one by one until you can't relaunch
>>>> Xcos ; that way we'll know which one is causing the trouble.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you, best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 08/12/2016 10:45 AM, Stefan Du Rietz wrote:
>>>>> Hello Paul,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using Scilab 5.5.2, installed from binaries in three different
>>>>> computers with Windows 7 Pro, Windows 10 Home, and Xubuntu Linux
>>>>> 14.4, respectively. I have these toolboxes installed(?):
>>>>>
>>>>> -->s = atomsSearch("toolbox");
>>>>> -->mprintf("%s\n", s(:, 1))
>>>>> ampl_toolbox
>>>>> ANN_Toolbox
>>>>> celestlab
>>>>> celestlabx
>>>>> CLUSTER
>>>>> CWA
>>>>> dace_scilab
>>>>> emd_toolbox
>>>>> EMTTOOL
>>>>> FACT
>>>>> Global_Optim_toolbox
>>>>> grocer
>>>>> guimaker
>>>>> huffcomp
>>>>> hypt
>>>>> ica_toolbox
>>>>> json
>>>>> lsitbx
>>>>> Mascaret
>>>>> MDPtoolbox
>>>>> metanet
>>>>> microdaq
>>>>> minphase_toolbox
>>>>> moc_toolbox
>>>>> nan
>>>>> OpenRTDynamics
>>>>> regtools
>>>>> rltool
>>>>> serial
>>>>> sndfile_toolbox
>>>>> socket_toolbox
>>>>> stixbox
>>>>> swt
>>>>> toolbox_skeleton
>>>>> toolbox_spgl1
>>>>> usb_toolbox
>>>>> XCPL
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards
>>>>> Stefan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2016-08-12 08:42, Paul Bignier wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello Stefan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This error is not familiar, could you give us more information
>>>>>> please?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What version of Scilab are you using? Compiled or Binary? OS? Do
>>>>>> you
>>>>>> have toolboxes installed?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Paul
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 08/11/2016 08:26 PM, Stefan Du Rietz wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>> how do I start Xcos for the first time ever?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When I try from the menu: Applications - Xcos,
>>>>>>> I get this message:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  8361  Tue Aug  9 21:14
>>>>>>> ckobject(28);if with_module("xcos") then xcos(); else
>>>>>>> disp(gettext("Please install xcos module
>>>>>>>                                                 !--error 999
>>>>>>> xcos:
>>>>>>> while executing a callback
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And from the command line:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -->xcos
>>>>>>>   !--error 999
>>>>>>> xcos:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What can I do?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>> Stefan
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