[Paraview] pvclient

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:13:29AM -0600, Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> Is there a reason that you are using such an old version of ParaView?  Try downloading and installing the most recent version of ParaView (currently 3.6.1).

well.. the reason is that there is a FreeBSD port of paraview, which
is the easy way to install all dependencies. I'll see if the paraview
FreeBSD port maintainers could be persuaded to update their makefiles.

thanks for reply though.


> 
> -Ken
> 
> 
> On 8/17/09 8:58 AM, "Anton Shterenlikht" <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> I'm new to paraview.
> I installed paraview-2.4.4_6 on FreeBSD 8.0-beta2 SMP ia64.
> I launch the server as:
> 
> % pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering
> Listen on port: 11111
> Waiting for client...
> 
> then I launch the client and get this error:
> 
> TZAV> pvclient
> Connect to localhost:11111
> ParaView error: InitializeTcl failed
> Tk_Init error: Can't find a usable tk.tcl in the following directories:
>     /usr/local/lib/paraview-2.4/tk8.4
> 
> /usr/local/lib/paraview-2.4/tk8.4/tk.tcl: no event type or button # or keysym
> no event type or button # or keysym
>     while executing
> "bind Listbox <MouseWheel> {
>     %W yview scroll [expr {- (%D / 120) * 4}] units
> }"
>     (file "/usr/local/lib/paraview-2.4/tk8.4/listbox.tcl" line 182)
>     invoked from within
> "source /usr/local/lib/paraview-2.4/tk8.4/listbox.tcl"
>     (in namespace eval "::" script line 1)
>     invoked from within
> "namespace eval :: [list source [file join $::tk_library $file.tcl]]"
>     (procedure "SourceLibFile" line 2)
>     invoked from within
> "SourceLibFile listbox"
>     (in namespace eval "::tk" script line 4)
>     invoked from within
> "namespace eval ::tk {
>         SourceLibFile button
>         SourceLibFile entry
>         SourceLibFile listbox
>         SourceLibFile menu
>         SourceLibFile panedwindow
>         SourceLibFile ..."
>     invoked from within
> "if {$::tk_library ne ""} {
>     if {[string equal $tcl_platform(platform) "macintosh"]} {
>         proc ::tk::SourceLibFile {file} {
>             if {[catch {
>                 namesp..."
>     (file "/usr/local/lib/paraview-2.4/tk8.4/tk.tcl" line 397)
>     invoked from within
> "source /usr/local/lib/paraview-2.4/tk8.4/tk.tcl"
>     ("uplevel" body line 1)
>     invoked from within
> "uplevel #0 [list source $file]"
> 
> 
> This probably means that tk wasn't installed properly.
> 
> 
> Exit Client
> %
> 
> I've tcl-8.4.19_3,1 and tk-8.4.19_2,2 installed.
> 
> Any advice?
> 
> many thanks
> 
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Anton Shterenlikht
Room 2.6, Queen's Building
Mech Eng Dept
Bristol University
University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 
Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423