[petsc-users] Petsc Draw to pixmap

[Barry Smith]

> On Dec 3, 2015, at 5:54 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Sean Dettrick <sdettrick at trialphaenergy.com> wrote:
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> No, it is my fault, when I was unable to download from afterstep.org earlier I didn’t realize that it was probably my work firewall blocking me.  Thus sending me on a wild goose chase with macports and home-brew and github version, which didn’t compile.
> 
> But now I’ve tried to follow your advice, and have a new problem.
> 
> I installed Afterimage from your suggested site, with suggested X lib flags:
> 
>    ./configure --x-includes=/opt/X11/include -x-libraries=/opt/X11/lib
> 
> Did you check that it worked? Configure can (semi-)silently turn things off.

   Yes, I think Matt is right. This is the error message you get if afterimage was installed without X. Check through all the logs and build stuff of afterimage. 

  Barry

> 
>   Thanks,
> 
>     Matt
>  
>    make
>    make install
> 
> No errors.  Then re-configured and built petsc:
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>    export PETSC_DIR=/Users/sdettrick/libs/petsc-3.6.1
>    export PETSC_ARCH=mac-gcc-hdf5-mpich-afterimage
>   ./configure --with-afterimage --download-hdf5 --download-mpich --PETSC_ARCH=mac-gcc-hdf5-mpich-afterimage --PETSC_DIR=/Users/sdettrick/libs/petsc-3.6.1 
>    make PETSC_DIR=/Users/sdettrick/libs/petsc-3.6.1 PETSC_ARCH=mac-gcc-hdf5-mpich-afterimage all
> 
> No errors.  Then try to run an example with image output:
> 
>    cd src/dm/examples/tutorials/
>    make ex5
>    ./ex5
>    ./ex5 -draw_save test.png
> 
> The example generates the error you mentioned, which it didn’t before installing afterimage:
> 
> X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  1 (X_CreateWindow)
>   Value in failed request:  0x40
>   Serial number of failed request:  7
>   Current serial number in output stream:  14
> 
> Browsing through configure.log, it seems that petsc is using the same X11 library.
> 
> Did I miss something?
> 
> Thanks!
> Sean
> 
> 
>> On Dec 2, 2015, at 11:10 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>  I am such an idiot. No I did build it from source I forgot the comment in afterimage.py 
>> 
>>  After image is available from http://www.afterstep.org/afterimage/getcode.php
>> #
>> #  It is used by the PetscDrawSetSave() routine to save X windows graphics to files
>> #
>> #  If installing on an Apple make sure to read the details on PetscDrawSetSave manual
>> #  page before installing
>> #
>> 
>> from that page I found
>> 
>> If X windows generates an error message about X_CreateWindow() failing then Afterimage was installed without X windows. Reinstall Afterimage using the
>>   ./configure flags --x-includes=/pathtoXincludes --x-libraries=/pathtoXlibraries   For example under Mac OS X Mountain Lion --x-includes=/opt/X11/include -x-libraries=/opt/X11/lib
>> 
>> Did you try all this stuff?
>> 
>>  Barry
>> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 3, 2015, at 1:00 AM, Sean Dettrick <sdettrick at trialphaenergy.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Barry,
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the amazingly fast reply.  I installed home-brew but then was unable to find afterstep available as a package.  The closest thing I could find was asterm (after step terminal emulator.  Do you remember if you installed it from a canonical repo? 
>>> 
>>> I did find afterstep on github, but had trouble installing it on the mac.
>>> 
>>> Meanwhile, a colleague has given me a python script, so I’ll probably use that instead for now. 
>>> 
>>> Thanks again,
>>> Sean
>>> 
>>>> On Dec 2, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sean,
>>>> 
>>>> I have never been able to build from that source either. 
>>>> 
>>>> I used homebrew to install it and its worked for several years.
>>>> 
>>>> I also tried to see if one could pull the image from the X pixel map and it looked like a huge project (the pixmap stuff is not as trivial as one would think it would be) so I gave up on that and started using afterimage (which essentially does all the for you).
>>>> 
>>>> Barry
>>>> 
>>>>> On Dec 2, 2015, at 3:39 PM, Sean Dettrick <sdettrick at trialphaenergy.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I’d like to have petsc draw output to a pixmap, but have been unable to install afterstep on my Mac.  Direct download of the tar files from http://www.afterstep.org/afterimage/getcode.php failed, as did cvs checkout.  It seems the target sites may not exist at present.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there another way to install afterstep?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Alternatively, is there a way to manually redirect the X11 output using something like XCreatePixmap?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> Sean Dettrick
>>>> 
>>> 
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