Forum: GNU Radio GNUradio and Windows 7

I have finally been able to get GNUradio to run under Windows 7 but have 
the following issues when running GNUradio-Companion.py:

1. When I select blocks to be placed in the working window I can’t move 
the block around.

2. I have been running a relatively simple program on my Linux computer 
but when trying to run it on the Windows computer I get the following 
error:
:Invalid argument
C:\Users\Al\AppData\Roaming\.gnuradio\Prefs\gr_vmcircbuf_default_factory:
No such file or directory
:Invalid argument

The program consists of a File Source going to a Throttle going to both 
a WX GUI FFT Sink and a WX GUI Waterfall Sink. When I run the program 
both the Waterfall and FFT positions come up but only the Waterfall 
actually appears but with nothing happening. If I disable the Waterfall 
Sink then the FFT grid comes up but with nothing happening.  And of 
course the above error message comes up in each case.

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks,

Al

That is a known issue with the wxGTK implementation on Windows, and
not specific to Gnu Radio, unfortunately.

On 26 Jan 2013 12:46,
tokens@myranch.com wrote:

> I have finally been able to get GNUradio
to run under Windows 7 but have the following issues when running
GNUradio-Companion.py:
>
> 1. When I select blocks to be placed in the
working window I can't move the block around.

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:50 AM, <mleech@ripnet.com> wrote:

> **
>
> That is a known issue with the wxGTK implementation on Windows, and not
> specific to Gnu Radio, unfortunately.
>
I think Balint Seeber recently fixed this:

http://gnuradio.org/cgit/gnuradio.git/commit/?id=d3c7e93f

It's on the master branch and will be part of release 3.6.4.

Johnathan

On 26 Jan 2013 13:08, Johnathan Corgan wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 26,
2013 at 9:50 AM, <mleech@ripnet.com [1]> wrote:
>
>> That is a known
issue with the wxGTK implementation on Windows, and not specific to Gnu
Radio, unfortunately.
> I think Balint Seeber recently fixed this:
>
>
http://gnuradio.org/cgit/gnuradio.git/commit/?id=d3c7e93f [2]
>
> It's
on the master branch and will be part of release 3.6.4.
>
>
Johnathan

Ah. Awesome!

Not that I use Windows, but it will make Gnu
Radio seem less like rubbish to newbs on Windows, which is always a good
thing...



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