[petsc-users] Petsc Draw to pixmap

[Barry Smith]

  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
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#  It is used by the PetscDrawSetSave() routine to save X windows graphics to files
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#  If installing on an Apple make sure to read the details on PetscDrawSetSave manual
#  page before installing
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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:
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> 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:
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>> 
>>  Sean,
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>>  I have never been able to build from that source either. 
>> 
>>  I used homebrew to install it and its worked for several years.
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>>  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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