problem with picons

problem with picons

[Dan Mills]

Hello,

I'm having some problems getting picons to work.  I am using xemacs
21, and pgnus 0.96.  The relevant parts of my ~/.gnus are below.

The problem is that it doesn't display any picons at all.  I tried
going with the "Easy Picons" solution from the manual, but Gnus
complained that gnus-picons-display-where was nil, so I commented out
the "(setq gnus-use-picons t)" and set the variables myself.

My setup:

;; Picons
;;(setq gnus-use-picons t)
(add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook
          'gnus-article-display-picons t)
(add-hook 'gnus-article-display-hook
          'gnus-picons-article-display-x-face t)
(setq gnus-picons-piconsearch-url
      "http://www.cs.indiana.edu:800/piconsearch")
(setq gnus-picons-display-where 'picons)


;;Change the default split of windows to add the picon window (and the bbdb)
(gnus-add-configuration
 '(article (vertical 1.0
               (summary .25 point)
	       (vertical 9
		       (horizontal 1.0
				("*BBDB*" 0.5)
				(picons 1.0)))
               (article 1.0))))

Thanks in advance,
-Dan

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Re: problem with picons

[Dan Mills]

Kim-Minh Kaplan <kmkaplan@vocatex.fr> writes:

> Dan Mills writes:
> 
> > The problem is that it doesn't display any picons at all.  I tried
> > going with the "Easy Picons" solution from the manual, but Gnus
> > complained that gnus-picons-display-where was nil
> 
> That's strange: it is supposed to default to 'picons.  Can you check
> that you don't set it in one of your init files.  And also check thaht 

nope.  I'm setting now, but that's because it's nil if I don't.
Perhaps I have a buggy version?

> you can browse the picon URL (M-x w3-fetch RET
> http://www.cs.indiana.edu:800/piconsearch RET).

Ok- this gives an error:
"Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"

I'm not sure what it means, though..

-Dan

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Re: problem with picons

[Kim-Minh Kaplan]

Dan Mills writes:

> The problem is that it doesn't display any picons at all.  I tried
> going with the "Easy Picons" solution from the manual, but Gnus
> complained that gnus-picons-display-where was nil

That's strange: it is supposed to default to 'picons.  Can you check
that you don't set it in one of your init files.  And also check thaht 
you can browse the picon URL (M-x w3-fetch RET
http://www.cs.indiana.edu:800/piconsearch RET).

Kim-Minh.

Re: problem with picons

[Kim-Minh Kaplan]

Dan Mills writes:

> Kim-Minh Kaplan writes:
> 
> > Dan Mills writes:
> > 
> > > Gnus complained that gnus-picons-display-where was nil
> 
> I'm setting now, but that's because it's nil if I don't.
> Perhaps I have a buggy version?

Possibly.

> > M-x w3-fetch RET http://www.cs.indiana.edu:800/piconsearch RET
> 
> Ok- this gives an error: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"
> 
> I'm not sure what it means, though..

It means that W3 is another strong contender for trouble spot.  Picons 
use it for fetching from the network.

Kim-Mihn.

Re: problem with picons

[David Porter]

    Kim-Minh> M-x w3-fetch RET http://www.cs.indiana.edu:800/piconsearch RET

    Dan> Ok- this gives an error: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"
    Dan> 
    Dan> I'm not sure what it means, though..

    Kim-Minh> It means that W3 is another strong contender for trouble spot.
    Kim-Minh> Picons use it for fetching from the network.

I have exactly the same problem as Dan but rather than fetching from the
network, I have the picons database installed locally.

-- 
David Porter
dporter@turing.une.edu.au

Re: problem with picons

[Dan Mills]

David Porter <dporter@turing.une.edu.au> writes:

>     Kim-Minh> M-x w3-fetch RET http://www.cs.indiana.edu:800/piconsearch RET
> 
>     Dan> Ok- this gives an error: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"
>     Dan> 
>     Dan> I'm not sure what it means, though..
> 
>     Kim-Minh> It means that W3 is another strong contender for trouble spot.
>     Kim-Minh> Picons use it for fetching from the network.
> 
> I have exactly the same problem as Dan but rather than fetching from the
> network, I have the picons database installed locally.

Ah, then the problem might not be in w3.  w3 works fine, after all
(except for that picon search url).

Anyone have any ideas about what could be going wrong?

-Dan


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Re: problem with picons

[Dan Mills]

Dan Mills <dm@cs.duke.edu> writes:

> Anyone have any ideas about what could be going wrong?

Just to follow up-  I downgraded to XEmacs20 (from 21.1) and now
everything works just fine.  So it's something XEmacs21-specific (ie,
it was not a problem in my config files).

-Dan

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Re: problem with picons

[Kim-Minh Kaplan]

Might also be the Gnus version as you are now running:

> X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald"

Can you check with the where and when (use the CVS tree) the problem
happens ?  Also a lisp backtrace would be helpful in understanding the 
problem.

Kim-Minh.

Re: problem with picons

[Dan Mills]

Kim-Minh Kaplan <kmkaplan@vocatex.fr> writes:

> Might also be the Gnus version as you are now running:
> 
> > X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald"
> 
> Can you check with the where and when (use the CVS tree) the problem
> happens ?  Also a lisp backtrace would be helpful in understanding the 
> problem.

I was using Gnus 5.5 by mistake.. I now switched back to pgnus (0.65 I 
think), and Picons still work fine.

I don't know how to make a lisp backtrace, though.  How would I do
that?

-Dan

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Re: problem with picons

[Matt McClure]

On Thu Nov 18 1999, 12:54, Dan Mills <dm@cs.duke.edu> wrote:

> I don't know how to make a lisp backtrace, though.  How would I do
> that?

M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET

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