Re: [circle] Windows issues

[thomasV]

Paul Campbell wrote:

> I think I posted this the wrong direction earlier (replied to the
> individual), BUT...
>
> The "prepackaged" circle for Windows fails silently. I don't know
> exactly why. This is "Circle-0.40e.pyw".
>
> The complete (source) version does work as advertised under Windows. I got
> it to run as follows:
>
> 1. Edit the installation script (setup.py). Down towards the bottom,
> comment out the "/usr..." lines which refer to unix-specific files.
>
> 2. Run python setup.py install
> 3. Run python circle start
>  

normally you do not need to do step 1 and 2.
simply running 'python circle' should do it.


> Strangely enough, it doesn't go into "daemon" mode as advertised. The
> Windows version at least boots both the GUI and the backend regardless
> of what the settings are.
>  

there is no daemon mode for windows.
this is because I do not know how to listen to a socket
in windows. I do not know if it is possible at all...

> Also, at least on the Windows versions, it fails whenever you press the
> arrow buttons on the scroll bars silently (immediately core dumps), with
> no errors. With the scroll bar "elevator" (not sure what the GTK word
> for it is...the Macintosh word is "elevator"...the block that represents
> the current position of the view port in reference to the entire object),
> everything works fine except that there is a continuous stream of
> "asserts" in the console window where circle was booted from.
>
> I posted bugs to the bug list on these.


> It seems to crash once in a while for no apparent reason as well. The
> way it acts, it's as if the problem is GUI-related and nothing to do
> with the backend. I say this because whenever it crashes is immediately
> after clicking on a button. Whenever the backend is just "doing it's
> thing", there are never any issues. And all the crashes are silent
> (no error messages).
>
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