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Problem of Installing MINX4.1 on Windows #1

Open seairscape opened 4 years ago

seairscape commented 4 years ago

I am working on Windows 10 64 bit platform. When I double-click the MINX4 exe file in the MINX_V4.1Win package, an IDL image appears. However, the image disappears when I click the "MINX4" button on that image. MINX is also not running. It looks just like nothing has happened. How can I solve this problem to use MINX 4.1?

Thanks!

DEVELOPgeo commented 4 years ago

We are experiencing the same problem on our Windows 10 deployments as well: Windows 64-bit OS Build 17763.1282

Any help would be appreciated!

sval-dev commented 4 years ago

Hello,

Can you try and mimic what the button would do and report back?

In my example and in the screenshot below, I have extracted the MINX_V4.1Win.zip to C:\Users\IEUser\Downloads\MINX_V4.1Win and the full path to the MINX4 folder within is C:\Users\IEUser\Downloads\MINX_V4.1Win\MINX4

In a command prompt, cd to the extracted MINX4 directory: cd "C:\Users\IEUser\Downloads\MINX_V4.1Win\MINX4"

Run MINX: IDL87\bin\bin.x86_64\idlrt.exe -vm=minx.sav

Manual-MINX

You may also want to check in event viewer to see if any errors or warnings are logged when attempting to start MINX.

sval-dev commented 4 years ago

Any updates on attempting to run MINX manually without MINX4.exe?

DEVELOPgeo commented 4 years ago

We were able to get MINX to run by specifying where the runtime library files are located:

  1. At a Command prompt, type the following (replace C:\Program Files\ with the pathname of where MINX is installed):

C:\Program Files\MINX4\MINX4.exe -vm=C:\Program Files\MINX4

  1. The splash screen will appear. Click on the MINX4 button.

  2. That should run MINX

sval-dev commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the feedback! Hopefully that is useful to anyone else experiencing the problem, and we'll test that MINX works when moved into program files.