Graph not updating on startup

[Trevor Young]

​Changing the update type to time interval solves the problem.  Must be
some issue with change detection.

Thanks for the help!

Trevor

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Trevor Young <tnyoung at hawaii.edu> wrote:

> The file is ascii.  I have the update type set to change detection.
> Perhaps time interval would be better. It is a 20hz data feed so I'll try
> setting the update interval to 50ms.
>
> Your test loop seems to work fine.
>
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Barth Netterfield <
> netterfield at astro.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
>> I just tried the following test:
>> in one terminal:
>>
>> while 1;
>> do date +%s >> tmp.dat && sleep 1
>> done
>>
>> In another terminal
>>
>> kst2 tmp.dat -y 1
>>
>> The resulting plot updates every second, as expected.  Can you try this
>> test?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 6:46 PM, Barth Netterfield <
>> netterfield at astro.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> 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 <(416)%20845-0946>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> C. Barth Netterfield
>> University of Toronto
>> 416-845-0946 <(416)%20845-0946>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> 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
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