Re: relax 1.3.13/14 oddities

[Jack H. <ho...@do...>]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:38:17PM +0200, Edward d'Auvergne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've created a special task for attaching files (logs, errors,
> screenshots, etc) to at https://gna.org/task/index.php?7581.  More
> below:
> 
> >> I do not see the problem you are seeing, it's unfortunately not
> >> reproducible on my system.  I have a fully maximised relax window.  Do
> >> you see the same if you run:
> >>
> >> $ /sw/bin/python2.7 /sw/bin/relax --gui --debug
> >>
> >> This should set the window size to the default of 1000x600 pixels.
> >> Without the --debug flag, I use the wx.MAXIMIZE style for the main
> >> window (as well as a call to wx.Frame.Maximize() for the problematic
> >> MS Windows version), so this should be maximised twice on the Mac (the
> >> native Mac widgets ignore both of these!).
> >
> > Edward,
> >   Using...
> >
> > /sw/bin/python2.7 /sw/bin/relax --gui --debug
> >
> > does produce the smaller window which is the correct size for the
> > surrounding window frame. If I remove the --debug, I see to get the
> > same 1000x600 pixel of content drawn into a much larger window frame.
> > I've attached a screen capture of the window as a tiff file.
> 
> This looks quite familiar.  From memory, this was how it used to look
> on Mac OS X with wxPython with native widgets, but a call to
> wx.Refresh() in relax fixed this.  For example on my test system with
> the fink install, I see the following screenshot
> https://gna.org/support/download.php?file_id=15551 (attached to the
> task with more info at https://gna.org/task/index.php?7581#comment1).
> For the native widget set, see the screenshot at
> http://www.nmr-relax.com/screenshots.html.  We will have to work out
> why the screen is not refreshing on your machine, allowing the widgets
> to layout properly and fill the screen.  Does minimisation or drastic
> window resizing (very small to full size) cause anything to change?
> What if you click on File->New analysis and select one of the
> analyses, clicking through the analysis wizard, does this change the
> layout?  Do you see the same with the View->Spin viewer window?  I
> really wish I could reproduce this so I can randomly add and test
> wx.Refresh() and wx.Layout() commands to see it if fixes the problem.
> Debugging blindly is impossible here :S

Edward,
    The behavior that I see under fink is that when executing...

relax --gui

...the main relax window frame fills the entire screen but only about
1000x600 pixels are rendered in the upper left hand corner. If I click
on the green maximize button once, the window is reduced back to 
1000x600 pixels which entirely fills the window frame. If I click the
green maximize button a second time, the window frame returns back to
the initial state of filling the whole screen but the entire window
frame is now properly rendered. For now, I would be happy just to find
a hack which would cause the standard startup of relax --gui to default
to the 1000x600 window size without resorting to --debug. I'm not sure
we really want huge relax windows opening up by default.
               Jack

> 
> 
> >> I do however see a little frameless window in the top left hand corner
> >> with the relax Ulysses butterfly icon in it.  I'm guessing this is the
> >> failure of the dock icon described below, though this needs testing.
> >
> > Are you always running relax on Mac OS X remotely? What happens if you
> > log directly into the Mac where the fink relax package is installed and
> > execute...
> >
> > /sw/bin/python2.7 /sw/bin/relax --gui
> 
> I have removed this little window from the 1.3 main line.  This was
> the Mac dock icon, turning into a funny looking window under wxGTK +
> X.  Funnily, a right click brought up the Mac dock menu!  Anyway, it
> is now gone.
> 
> As for Mac hardware, unfortunately I have no physical access to a Mac.
>  I wish I did have a special development machine, as that would save
> me a lot of time and would result in much better Mac support.
> Ideally, a Lion system with Snow Leopard and Leopard (server editions)
> running in VMs (each with the Xcode+official Python module packages, a
> custom Python+module framework build, and the fink install), and with
> re-installation capabilities would be the best set up to provide Mac
> support.  But unfortunately I don't think this will ever happen.  I
> also cannot install a Mac system on my computer in a VM as that is not
> legally possible.
> 
> 
> >> There are a few strange behaviours with this wxPython version
> >> (2.8.12.1) from fink.  The first is that the relax menu bar is not
> >> integrated into the standard Mac toolbar at the top of the screen but
> >> is a normal GTK+ menubar in addition to the Mac toolbar.  The second
> >> is that the relax icon in the dock is not set on the fink version, it
> >> should be the relax butterfly icon.  Lastly, the fink version is
> >> running via X.
> >
> > This should be expected as we are building relax against the X version of
> > wxgtk. I don't believe either fink or macports has a native Mac interface
> > gtk package (as far as I know everything goes through X11).
> 
> That's ok, I'll make sure relax runs in this set up.  Tomorrow I might
> put relax's GUI through it's paces with the fink install
> (http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/relax-py27 but updated to
> relax 1.3.14, wxPython 2.8.12.1) and see what else fails.  Superficial
> testing on my machine is looking good though.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Edward