[Kst] Kst (git) - read error for ASCII file

Peter Kümmel syntheticpp at gmx.net
Wed Sep 25 19:18:43 UTC 2013


Hi Syam,

thanks for reporting! It was a bug, please try again.

Peter

On 25.09.2013 18:48, Sonic wrote:
> Hi
>
> I downloaded Kst today from the git repo by:
> git clone https://github.com/Kst-plot/kst.git
>
> Built it successfully by opening cmake/CMakeLists.txt in Qt
> Creator and compiling.
>
> I tried opening the attached text file and got the error
> message box:
> " The file could not be read because not enough memory is
> available.
>
> Try setting a file buffer limit in the configuration options."
>
>
> After clicking OK, A plot window with no visible curve is
> displayed (although it apparently has Column2 as legend).
>
> After deleting this plot, I open the data manager, choose
> 'Purge'. Then when I repeat the process for the same file,
> everything works.
>
>
> Here's how to repeat the problem:
>
>
> 1. Open Kst
> 2. Use the data wizard to import sample.dat
> 3. Choose the defaults, (i.e. 'Limit buffer size' option in
> ASCII configure dialog is not selected)
> 4. Select 'Column2'
> 5. Select 'Column1' as X-axis
> 6. Proceed to create the curve
> 7. Get the above described error pop-up
> -----
> 8. Dismiss the error message
> 9. Right-click the empty plot and delete it
> 10. Open data manager by pressing 'D'
> 11. See that the vectors for column1 & 2 as well as the
> curve are correctly listed (with 3140 samples each)
> 12. Select 'Purge' to remove them
> 13. Repeat steps 1 through 6 to successfully display the
> plot - but with some problems (see step 19 below)
> -----
> 14. Close & re-open Kst
> 15. Repeat steps 1 through 13 with same observations
>
> -----
> 16. After step 11, avoid purging
> 17. Create a new plot and add the curve C1
> 18. Curve is displayed with some problems (there's one
> horizontal line that connects the last point with the first)
> 19. Open Data manager and find that the vectors seem to have
> 6280 (double) samples!!
> -----
> 20. Delete the plot and open data manager and 'Purge'
> 21. Repeat steps 1 through 6
> 22. No error is displayed, but no curve is displayed either!!
> 23. The data manager still lists 6280 samples for the vectors
>
> 24. Create a new plot and add the curve to it
>
> 25. Same problematic curve as in step 18 is displayed
> 26. Open the data manager and find that the curves now have
> 9420 samples (triple)!!!
>
>
> My platform:
>
> Fedora 19 x86_64
>
> Qt 4.8.5
> gcc v4.8.1
>
>
> Can this be explained? Or should I test with Kst v2.0.6?
>
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
>
> Syam
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Kst mailing list
> Kst at kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kst
>


More information about the Kst mailing list