Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gnumed on Windows Xp

[Tim Churches]

Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> On Thursday 21 July 2005 23:34, Hilmar Berger wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>yesterday I tested the Gnumed-package on WinXP. I installed all required
>>software packages as specified in the Wiki. It doesn't crash (that's the
>>good news) and seems to do what it should, i.e. get the data from backend.
>>However, there are massive problems when updating the notebook pages
>>(branches of trees are not shown etc., pages are not updated correctly
>>after switching tabs). Additionally, after selecting a patient Python uses
>>about 100% CPU, while gnumed continues to work (you can switch tabs and
>>they still work).
> 
> We are working on it. I ahve no idea how to fix this right now. Log file is 
> inconclusive to me. Looks like a screen redraw problem.
> 
> 
>>I wondered why gnumed on Windows uses wxWidgets2.6 when we usually use
>>wx2.4. That way it's difficult to say if this behavour is cause by bugs or
>>incompatibilities with Windows or with wxWidgets2.6.
> 
> You can use 2.4. I changed that part in the wiki. It doesn't seem to make a 
> difference.

I installed the GNUme 0.1 clinet on WinXP with wxPython 2.4 and Python
2.3 and the other recommended libraries. I had to edit gnumed.bat to
chnage the path tot he fiels to "C:\program Files\GNUmed-client" -
"Program Files" is the default installation path on all English language
versions of Windows.

The client then appeared (eventually) but I was unable to view any
existing patients (none offered) and was unable to add any new patients
because it kept saying that DOB had to be in YY-MM-DD format - no matter
what date format I tried, same error message. It wouldn't let me change
to any other tab without a patient record loaded. The BMI and EDC tools
worked but didn't print out. At that stage i concluded the test, since
there was nothing else that appeared to even vaguely work.

Sorry if the above seems negative, but that is an accurate account of my
experience with the GNUmed v0.1 client. Still, having a client which
actually displays something (even if it doesn't work) is a big step
forward for GNUmed.

Oh, the error messages kept telling me to look in teh logs. Where are
they being written?

Tim C