<div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Mark Hess <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhess@oceani.com" target="_blank">mhess@oceani.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I installed GrADS 1.8 on my new Vista machine. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>I as mentioned on an earlier posting, recent WIndows updates have been reported to break these old v1.8 Win32 builds. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
When I tried to run the<br>
program it did not open the normal GrADS window, but just froze. No error<br>
message, nothing. So I installed V2.0 from the web site<br>
<a href="http://www.iges.org/grads/downloads.html" target="_blank">http://www.iges.org/grads/downloads.html</a> (unzipped files from<br>
grads-2.0.a3-cygwin-dap.zip into the C:\Program Files\PCGrADS\win32e folder<br>
replacing the existing files). Now I get two errors.<br>
<br>
1) Windows brings up a User Account Control (UAC) window forcing me to click<br>
on "Allow" in order to run the program. On my old system GrADS was set up<br>
to run automatically, so this will not work.<br>
grads<br>
2) Before GrADS has a chance to open I get an error window which reads:<br>
"This application has failed to start because cygXext-6.dll was not found.<br>
Re-installing the application may fis this probloem." The Windows "looks for<br>
a solution" but fails to find one and closes. The V2.0 .zip file does not<br>
contain this file ( as far as I can tell). Do I need to install via a<br>
different method or can I find this file somewhere?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd suggest trying one of the OpenGrADS Win32 superpacks from either:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 17px; "><b>v1.9</b>: <a href="http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_GrADS_on_Microsoft_Windows" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_GrADS_on_Microsoft_Windows</a><br>
<b><br></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 17px; "><b>v2.0</b>: <a href="http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_GrADS_v2.0_on_Microsoft_Windows" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_GrADS_v2.0_on_Microsoft_Windows</a><br>
<br></span></div><div>These are complete packages that should run out of the box; see links above for more details. They are fairly easy to install and are relocatable (you can copy it to a USB mem stick and run it from there, even on another machine with no installation necessary.) Although these are not supported by COLA, v2.0.a4.oga.2 should have all the functionality that you find in COLA's v2.0.a4. These are the continuation of the Win32 builds I have been doing for the last 10 years.</div>
<div><br></div><div> Arlindo</div><div> </div></div>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a><br>
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