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Hi Greg, I am in Chengdu, China at the moment, and my ability to respond to support questions is limited (I will be unavailable for the rest of the day today as we travel from Chengdu, to Aba in Tibet, for instance). re; > I went to fire up the Unidata mcidas gui on my system today and had a problem. > I invoked the gui with a simple >mcidas command. The window came up but then > started growing without bound until I killed it. I tried this several times > with > the same result. When I killed it I got the following error message (which > may or > may not be helpful): > > xtuser@lightning:~/mcidas$ Error in startup script: can't invoke "winfo" > command: application has been destroyed > while executing > "winfo exists $w" > (procedure "textList" line 28) > invoked from within > "textList "DATALOC HOST" command "" $x $y" > (file "/home/mcidas/bin/mcgui.k" line 1280) I think that this message is a result of your killing things to stop the growth. re: > I'm running this on a linux system and have not seen this problem before but > I > see a similar problem reported in your mail archives but no resolution other > than > to try gnome instead of KDE. Those don't apply to me as I'm ssh'ing in to > this > system and using X to view the display tools. OK. re: > Here's my system info: > > xtuser@lightning:~/mcidas$ uname -a > Linux lightning.eol.ucar.edu 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Apr 17 17:08:00 > EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I'm running MCIDAS-X v2009g I believe, installed last June. I'm in the middle > of > a field campaign with active mcidas scripts running so I don't want to do a > major > upgrade until the campaign ends in July. Any ideas? Try the following mod that is included in the most recent McIDAS addendum (I think it is included in the one available now; if it isn't it will be in the next one): Change: # Reparent the McIDAS Xwindow xwindow $win $windowid grid configure $win -sticky "news" To: # Reparent the McIDAS Xwindow xwindow $win $windowid pack $win in 'proc reparentXwin' in ~mcidas/mcidas2009/src/upcguiprocs.tcl. After making the change to upcguiprocs.tcl, make sure that the copy in the ~mcidas/bin directory was updated (the file in ~mcidas/bin should be a link to the one in ~mcidas/mcidas2009/src). If it wasn't (meaning the link was deleted for some reason), copy the modified version of upcguiprocs.tcl to ~mcidas/bin. After upcguiprocs.tcl is updated, retry starting the MCGUI. Please let me know the results of this test. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: DPF-707654 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed