ORNL SANS interface won't load in Win32 or RHE5

[Robert Whitley]

I'm using Mantid Win32 on a Windows XP laptop and the interface ORNL SANS doesn't load.

The only indication that I clicked it is that the screen flashes a window for a split second and then closes itself.

Actually this looks like a general issue, On RHE5 you get an error saying sqllite3 is missing, on windows you don’t get the message, but the window never launches.

[Mathieu Doucet]

Re #4476 Trying to fix data catalog

Changeset: d7819aeaaeb382ebdad296042570c5bb06d49550

[Nick Draper]

This seems to only be an issue on windows if the facility has never been changed to one that fits. Once the facility has been changed to HFIR, and even changed back again it seems to work on windows.

While this is ok, it isn't very obvious

[Mathieu Doucet]

Revert "Re #4476 Trying to fix data catalog"

This reverts commit d7819aeaaeb382ebdad296042570c5bb06d49550.

Changeset: 3b7758c7269ac750d9f29f8707f6918b712610d8

[Mathieu Doucet]

Re #4476 Fix the real problem with ORNL SANS UI not starting

Changeset: 0250ad386399c6375213751038c0d35a8f18df51

[Mathieu Doucet]

The problem was that the ORNL SANS GUI simply quit when it didn't find a good default instrument. I changed it such that you now have to pick an instrument if no default can be found. To test:

• remove you user facility and instrument default in your Mantid.user.properties file
• remove saved MantidPlot config data (on linux you delete ~/.config/ISIS/MantidPlot.conf

• when starting MantidPlot, you should get the facility default dialog: pick ISIS
• start the ORNL SANS GUI. You should get an instrument selection dialog. (This is where it used to fail)

• Note that if you hit cancel on the instrument selection dialog the GUI will close.

[Robert Whitley]

Just checked Win32 version and the ORNL SANS GUI loads with no problems.

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​5323