EKM Metering

I managed to get dash (1.8.2) to start on centos 6.6, 64 bit, but I do not think it is working properly, some highlights:

Some console messages are spewing:
gtk unhappiness, not located theme clearlooks, not loading canberra

Add meter dialog:
1) GUI is not properly displayed; items are cut off and not fitting in window
2) Click on iserial tab is non-responsive (I have iserial and need this to work)

You probably already know there were a few libraries that needed to be installed, some xojo forum digging required to identify.


Any ideas on getting this thing working for me?

thnks

Thanks for the heads up (xojo compiles for linux, but we do not test this side of things as well as Mac and PC). Do you think any of the issues could be because you are running the EKM Dash on a small display screen? Or are you on a normal size screen? Are you able to share screenshots with us?

If we know more about how to re-create the issues you are seeing the more I can feedback to our developers as to what is going on.

I will forward this post to our Dash developers.

As for running Dash on 64 bit I have this piece of information: Xojo needs the 32 bit libraries installed to run on Linux and some Linux versions only include the 64 bit libraries. To install the 32 bit libraries try this command:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-multiarch

also:
WebKit version 1 needs to be installed in order for the graphs to appear.

Thanks again for your help.

recreate? - try to run dash on Centos 6.6 64bit system

thanks for the response

FYI "apt" is not the default standard preferred Centos tool, "yum" is used

as mentioned previously, I have installed the well known libs (32bit support):
libstdc++.i686, libgcc.i686 glib2.i686, libicu.i686
(that last one showed up searching xojo forums)

I installed the xojo dev software too just in case, it runs, dash does not
(needed libs: mesa-libGL.i686, ncurses-libs.i686)

recently tried:
the following installed eliminated of most dash console messages:
libcanberra-gtk2.i686, gtk2-engines.i686

lots of things listed by yum search webkit
installed webkitgtk.i686 : no change in dash behavior detected

I took screenshot of the bum dialog, I will try to upload in separate post

it would be rather useful to have this dash thing running, do you have anything more for me on this?

thanks

Hello jcb,

Yes, I am not much of a Linux guy, but I will try to get someone else on this side to test this on Centos 6.6 64 bit.

I will let you know what they find. Thanks for the heads up.

Regards,

dunno how much help it is, but attached the screenshot

Hmmmmm, that is a mess! Any other screenshots that you can send that show how the Dash is improperly displayed will be helpful.

Thanks for your help with this.

Hello jcb,

Will you send us an email? We would like to send you a dev version of the Dash so that you can test the layout issues on Centos 6.6.

Thanks for your help.

Here is what you will need to run if you are using the EKM Dash on Centos:

sudo yum -y install glib2.i686 libgcc.i686 libstdc++.i686

Here are the system and library requirements for xojo (what Dash is written in):

http://docs.xojo.com/index.php/System_requirements

Hope this helps.