[Vis5d-users] Segmentation fault, DISPLAYs, contexts and userfuncs...

Hi,

I'm an old Vis5d user (nearly 7 years of use) and I'm now trying to
migrate to the vis5d+ versions. I've downloaded the 1.2.1 and 1.3.0-beta
packages and they "configures", and installs very well on my Linux
RedHat8 with Nvidia OpenGL drivers (Linux 2.4.18-18.8.0smp).

The thing is that I'm used to work with several (2 or 3) v5d files
(contexts) and I use to "Group" them and put several contexts in the
same DISPLAY. Now, I get a Segmentation fault when I try to "Group"
displays (in particular when I click on the second display I want to
group). It may be of interest that I don't get the error when I open the
same file on the two displays (or contexts), only when I open different
v5d files. I also get a segmentation fault when I try to put 2 contexts
on 1 DISPLAY (through the DISPLAY buttonn at the main Vis5d+ GUI). In
this case, even with the same v5d file opened in both DISPLAYs, I get
the Segmentation fault.

Another issue is the userfuncs/externf settings in vis5d+ on Linux
machines. I know the libmain.a  was used in the old Vis5d release but
now it looks like the external functions need it but it is not built any
more. How can we compile external functions under Linux?

Last thing referrs to a DATE recognition problem of vis5d when loading a 
single-timestep files. When I open a file with only one timestep the 
vis5d (I've noticed it in versions vis5d-1.2, vis5d+1.1, vis5d+1.2.1) 
does not recognize the date and shows 000000 190000 instead of the 
correct time and date. The header of the file is correct because when I 
append it to another file (so building a multiple timesteps file), the 
time and date are well recognized by vis5d. Have you noticed the same? 
Have you got a patch for this bug?


Sorry if these problems have already been reported to the Vis5d lists.
I'm trying to access to the Vis5d+ users list to see if someone has also
found that but I get a "permission denied" error from the Source Forge
page. I'm registered to both (devel and user) lists and to Source Forge
also. I can  access the Vis5d+ devel list but I can't read the past
messages of the Vis5d+ user  list.


Thanks a lot!

Victor.

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