Windows 7 (64bit) vates installer

[Peter Peterson]

To reproduce the error(s):

1. Download and install paraview in the default location
2. Download and install mantid in the default location
3. Download and install mantid_vates in the default location

During the vates installation it pops up a dialog 'Mantid does not appear to be installed'. Press 'OK' to clear the dialog and the installer will say that it succeeded. Now:

1. Start mantid
2. OneStepMDEW("TOPAZ_3131_event.nxs", "TOPAZ_3131")
3. Right click on the MD workspace to try to bring up the vates simple gui
4. See the new error dialog "Sorry, MantidPlot has caught an unexpected exception: InterfaceManagerImpl::createVatesSimpleGui..."

Otherwise you can start the vates simple gui directly (with the failed vates install still) which brings up an error dialog "...PV_PLUGIN_PATH not setup....".

What should happen is a simple:

1. Install mantid
2. Install paraview
3. Install mantid_vates
4. Everything works

The extra environment variable hacking will stump users.

[Owen Arnold]

More information needed:

You should have got a log message about the error. What did it read? Did you have admin rights when running the install?

[Owen Arnold]

Fixed under ticket #4318

[Nick Draper]

agreed

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​4972