[Scilab-users] Cannot start Xcos

[Claus Futtrup]

Hi Stefan

An interesting find ... amazing. If you enter something (not just 
Return), then xcos opens. If you do not enter anything, then s contains 
an empty string, and xcos crashes.

/Claus

On 15-08-2016 20:04, Stefan Du Rietz wrote:
> 1. Launch Scilab
> 2. Do this
> -->input("Press Return!", "s")
> -->xcos()
>
> Regards
> Stefan
>
>
> On 2016-08-15 17:58, Stefan Du Rietz wrote:
>> 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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