Changeset 367 for trunk

Timestamp:

Dec 4, 2009 5:04:59 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

toby

Message:

# on 2000/12/22 21:14:32, toby did:
minor edits, recommend tcl 8.2 now

File:

• trunk/doc/expgui_Win_readme.html (modified) (6 diffs, 3 props)

trunk/doc/expgui_Win_readme.html

@@ -77 +77 @@
 <A Href="http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/programs/crystallography/software/tclpkgs.html">
 Tcl/Tk</A> distribution<BR>
-I am testing a new version (Tcl/Tk v8.2):<BR>
+I recommend using this (not so new) version (Tcl/Tk v8.2):<BR>
 <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/pub/cryst/tcltk/tcltk82blt24qwinexec0601.exe">
 ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/pub/cryst/tcltk/tcltk82blt24qwinexec0601.exe</A>
 (2686464 bytes)
-<BR>or an older version (Tcl/Tk v8.0):<BR>
+<BR>Or, you could also load this older version (Tcl/Tk v8.0):<BR>
 <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/pub/cryst/gsas/win/tcltk80p2+.exe">ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/pub/cryst/gsas/win/tcltk80p2+.exe</A>
-(3604992 bytes)
-
-<P><LI>The 
-<A HREF="expgui.html">
-EXPGUI
-</A>
-code<BR>
+(3604992 bytes). I think 8.2 is a better choice.
+<P>
+<LI>The 
+<A HREF="expgui.html">EXPGUI</A> code<BR>
 <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/pub/cryst/gsas/expgui.exe">ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/pub/cryst/gsas/expgui.exe</A>
 (~340 K bytes)
@@ -97 +94 @@
 ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/pub/cryst/gsas/expgui_alpha.zip</A><BR>
 You will need an unzip program, such as WinZip or pkZip, to use this file.
+(sometimes I update 
+<A HREF="ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/pub/cryst/gsas/expgui_alpha.exe">
+ftp://ftp.ncnr.nist.gov/pub/cryst/gsas/expgui_alpha.exe</A>
+but this may lag behind the .ZIP version or be deleted.)
 <P><LI>
 If you are using an older version of GSAS (before April, 2000) you may 
@@ -203 +204 @@
 1. Can I use a different version of Tcl/Tk than the one here?
 <UL>Yes -- but: you will need both Tcl/Tk and the Winexec package (see
-http://www.du.edu/~mschwart/tcl-tk.htm) for the GUI to work. Further,
+http://www.du.edu/~mschwart/tcl-tk.htm) for the GUI to work
+with Windows-95, -98 and -me. Further,
 several utility routines (liveplot and widplt)
 require the BLT package to be properly configured as a loadable
 package to run. If you care what vintage of Tcl/Tk you are using, you are
 obviously a "power user" so take a look at the pkgIndex.tcl files and fix
-your version appropriately. Please note that EXPGUI seems to run very 
+your version, if you get an error about loading Blt_ZoomStack.
+Please note that EXPGUI seems to run very 
 slowly in Tcl/Tk version 8.1, but OK in 8.0 and 8.2.
 <BR> </UL>
@@ -244 +247 @@
 <UL>This package has gotten some testing under Win95 and WinNT v4.0.
 My limited experience with Win98 seems to show that EXPGUI runs OK.
-It might be possible to get some parts of the package to run under Win32s on Win3.1, but 
-don't ask me for help. 
+It might be possible to get some parts of the package to run under 
+Win3.1 with the Tcl/Tk version (8.0) that runs in Win32s, but 
+you are on your own.
 </UL>
 4. EXPGUI seems pretty slow, or is it my imagination?
 <UL>
-Well, actually the problem is Windows. EXPGUI is pretty zippy in LINUX, but some operations
-(reading a histogram in liveplot for example) can take 3-5 times longer in Windows than in UNIX.
+Well, actually the problem is Windows. EXPGUI is pretty zippy in LINUX, 
+but some operations
+(reading a histogram in liveplot for example) can take 3-5 times 
+longer in Windows than in UNIX on the exact same hardware.
+By all means, take this up with the folks in Redmond, WA.
 
 </UL>
@@ -261 +268 @@
 One is that the graphics package (PGPLOT) cannot find the PGPLOT_FONT 
 environment variable (that points to file GRFONT.DAT). EXPGUI does this 
-correctly, unless you are out of environment space (and I don't know how to 
-fix that in Windows.)
+for you and warns if it can't find this file, so the likely reason is
+that you are out of environment space (see 2, above).
 <P>
 The other appears to be a graphics mode problem. Not all modes work 
@@ -271 +278 @@
 (by opening a DOS box and type SET, also see question 2, above.) 
 If the plotting program runs in PC-GSAS or GSAS.BAT but not EXPGUI, you have a
-real EXPGUI bug.
+real EXPGUI bug and should bug me.
 
 <a name="NetPath"></a></UL>
 4. Can GSAS and EXPGUI be located on a shared network drive?
 <UL>
-Yes, but the path must be mapped to a "logical drive."
-(e.g. F:) since GSAS is basically a DOS program. 
+Yes, but. The path must be mapped to a "logical drive."
+(e.g. F:) since GSAS is basically a set of DOS programs. 
 Likewise, you will have troubles accessing
 experiment and data files on a networked drive unless
 that path is also mapped to a "logical drive."
+EXPGUI will warn you, if you do either.
 </UL>