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There are a few known issues with IDL widgets and macOS/OSX, running the latest XQuartz (2.7.11), including:
There are a few known issues with IDL widgets and macOS/OSX, running the latest XQuartz (2.7.11), including:


1) Segmentation fault while running code that involves widgets (SPEDAS GUI, EVA, etc.)
=== 1) Segmentation fault while running code that involves widgets (SPEDAS GUI, EVA, etc.) ===


Warning: Fatal Error:  
Warning: Fatal Error:  
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2) IDL may close abruptly and without warning when running code that involves widgets  
=== 2) IDL may close abruptly and without warning when running code that involves widgets ===




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3) On macOS Sierra you may get the following error:
=== 3) On macOS Sierra you may get the following error:===


Error: attempt to add non-widget child "dsm" to parent "idl" which supports only widgets
Error: attempt to add non-widget child "dsm" to parent "idl" which supports only widgets
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See also: http://michaelgalloy.com/2016/11/11/problems-with-xquartz-2-7-11-on-macos.html
See also: http://michaelgalloy.com/2016/11/11/problems-with-xquartz-2-7-11-on-macos.html
=== 4) No annotations/legend text showing in GUI ===
[[File: Screen_Shot_2018-10-05_at_5.01.03_PM.png|thumb|right|IDL config issue]]
This issue is due to corrupt IDL configuration files; to fix, delete the .idl folder in your IDL working directory

Revision as of 20:59, 8 October 2018

There are a few known issues with IDL widgets and macOS/OSX, running the latest XQuartz (2.7.11), including:

1) Segmentation fault while running code that involves widgets (SPEDAS GUI, EVA, etc.)

Warning: Fatal Error:

_XmGetDefaultDisplay cannot be used prior to VendorS.Initialize, returns NULL

Segmentation fault: 11


2) IDL may close abruptly and without warning when running code that involves widgets

Solution:

Both of these issues can be fixed at the command line with the following:

1. change to the X11 library directory:

 cd /opt/X11/lib

2. backup the libXt library file found in this directory:

 sudo cp libXt.6.dylib libXt.6.dylib.bak

3. change to the “flat_namespace” directory:

 cd flat_namespace/

4. copy the copy of libXt from this directory up one directory:

 sudo cp libXt.6.dylib ../.


3) On macOS Sierra you may get the following error:

Error: attempt to add non-widget child "dsm" to parent "idl" which supports only widgets

To fix this, you have to run the following two commands:

 sudo mv /opt/X11/lib/libXt.6.dylib{,.bak}
 sudo cp /opt/X11/lib{/flat_namespace,}/libXt.6.dylib

See also: http://michaelgalloy.com/2016/11/11/problems-with-xquartz-2-7-11-on-macos.html

4) No annotations/legend text showing in GUI

IDL config issue

This issue is due to corrupt IDL configuration files; to fix, delete the .idl folder in your IDL working directory