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Yamar: /* Gtk2 vs Tk */

2007-10-13T05:45:30Z

Gtk2 vs Tk

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	==== Gtk2 vs Tk ====		==== Gtk2 vs Tk ====

−	The Gtk2 GUI system is better than the Tk one, but I don't believe Gtk2 exists under ActiveState perl yet.	+	The GUI is written using geoqo scripts and a GUI system called QWizard. It is able to use either a Tk or a Gtk2 system on the back end when displaying things to the user.
		+	The Gtk2 GUI system is better than the Tk one, but I don't believe Gtk2 exists under ActiveState perl for windows yet. Thus, the screen shots may look a bit different than the ones you'll see. But the functionality is the same.

	(10/2007: it actually does. But I haven't followed all the needed instructions for getting it working)		(10/2007: it actually does. But I haven't followed all the needed instructions for getting it working)
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	=== Command Line Usage ===		=== Command Line Usage ===

Yamar: remove note about setting env var on windows

2007-10-13T05:41:39Z

remove note about setting env var on windows

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	(10/2007: it actually does. But I haven't followed all the needed instructions for getting it working)		(10/2007: it actually does. But I haven't followed all the needed instructions for getting it working)

−	~~==== Getting the GUI to even work ====~~

−	The QWizard module (which is a story in itself) doesn't deal with windows properly and auto-detect it. To fix this, you need to set a varibale to get the GUI screens to show up. On the command line (before you run any geoqo commands you want GUI screens for) you can type:
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−	~~set QWIZARD_GENERATOR=Tk~~
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−	~~Or, if you want to set it to that forever see: http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~louis/software/faq/q1.html~~

	=== Command Line Usage ===		=== Command Line Usage ===

Yamar: /* Gtk2 vs Tk */

2007-10-13T05:40:30Z

Gtk2 vs Tk

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	The Gtk2 GUI system is better than the Tk one, but I don't believe Gtk2 exists under ActiveState perl yet.		The Gtk2 GUI system is better than the Tk one, but I don't believe Gtk2 exists under ActiveState perl yet.
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		+	(10/2007: it actually does. But I haven't followed all the needed instructions for getting it working)

	==== Getting the GUI to even work ====		==== Getting the GUI to even work ====

168.150.236.43: /* GUI Usage */

2007-03-28T17:00:46Z

GUI Usage

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	The Gtk2 GUI system is better than the Tk one, but I don't believe Gtk2 exists under ActiveState perl yet.		The Gtk2 GUI system is better than the Tk one, but I don't believe Gtk2 exists under ActiveState perl yet.
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		+	==== Getting the GUI to even work ====
		+
		+	The QWizard module (which is a story in itself) doesn't deal with windows properly and auto-detect it. To fix this, you need to set a varibale to get the GUI screens to show up. On the command line (before you run any geoqo commands you want GUI screens for) you can type:
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		+	set QWIZARD_GENERATOR=Tk
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		+	Or, if you want to set it to that forever see: http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~louis/software/faq/q1.html

	=== Command Line Usage ===		=== Command Line Usage ===

168.150.236.43: windows help

2007-03-28T16:45:27Z

windows help

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== GeoQO On Windows Notes ==

GeoQO on windows does have a few oddities just because of windows itself.

=== GUI Usage ===

==== Gtk2 vs Tk ====

The Gtk2 GUI system is better than the Tk one, but I don't believe Gtk2 exists under ActiveState perl yet.

=== Command Line Usage ===

=== Single Quotes ===

Many of the geoqo examples use single quotes (') for quoting certain command line commands. However, windows doesn't deal with these the same way that unix does (where the documentation was written) so anytime you see single quotes, replace them with double quotes. IE:

geoqo -s 'cache:owner_name=Yamar' -l

should be:

geoqo -s "cache:owner_name=Yamar" -l

=== Equal Sign Issues ===

Windows does strange things with command line options that contain equal signs (=). You must quote them using double quotes when typing on windows (unix and macs don't exhibit this problem). As an example:

geoqo -s cache:owner_name=Yamar -l

Actually will fail with an odd error. Instead quote it:

geoqo -s "cache:owner_name=Yamar" -l

(when in doubt, quote it!)