Graph not updating on startup

Barth Netterfield netterfield at astro.utoronto.ca
Thu Mar 23 22:46:57 UTC 2017


Hmmm... these are ascii files?

It sounds like the update type isn't getting set right.

If you open one of the vectors in the vector edit dialog, what does it say
the update type is?



On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Trevor Young <tnyoung at hawaii.edu> wrote:

> Actually I must have originally gotten the package from the opensuse
> binaries page.  I installed a package from the ubuntu vivid ppa but still
> have the same problem. Perhaps it is debian related.  Nobody else has ever
> experienced this?
>
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Trevor Young <tnyoung at hawaii.edu> wrote:
>
>> You're right, I thought I had grabbed 2.0.8 from the ubuntu ppa but I had
>> only gotten 2.0.3 from the debian repo. I have several debian systems where
>> I am happy to pull from the ubuntu ppa but I have another system where a
>> kst binary isn't available at all so I'd like to learn to compile and it
>> uses qt5 instead of qt4.  How do I effect the cmake switch mentioned on the
>> kst source page?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Trevor
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 3:06 AM, C Barth Netterfield <
>> netterfield at astro.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Trevor,
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, the version of kst in debian is extremely old, and full of
>>> known bugs, and there is no maintainer for that debian package :-(
>>>
>>> We do have an ubuntu ppa we keep up to date (but you would have to
>>> switch to a
>>> recent ubuntu)
>>>
>>> Or you can build from source.  Let me know if you would like some help
>>> with
>>> that.
>>>
>>> cbn
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, March 22, 2017 8:38:04 PM EDT Trevor Young wrote:
>>> > I have a script logging data to file and use kde to graph it but I
>>> often
>>> > encounter an issue with the graph not updating itself on startup.  Kst
>>> will
>>> > load an initial set of data, and then a second or so later, do a single
>>> > second update.  The graph won't start live updating until I go into the
>>> > data manager and double click on any of the entries there, then it
>>> starts
>>> > to auto update. I don't need to make any changes, just have to double
>>> click
>>> > on something and bring up the dialog box. Has anyone else encountered
>>> this
>>> > or have an idea why this may be happening?
>>> >
>>> > I'm running an up to date copy of debian stable.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Trevor Young
>> Senior Marine Technician
>> Ocean Technology Group
>> University of Hawaii Marine Center
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Trevor Young
> Senior Marine Technician
> Ocean Technology Group
> University of Hawaii Marine Center
>
>


-- 
C. Barth Netterfield
University of Toronto
416-845-0946
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