Re: Does Octave 4 GUI work on Windows 10?

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

>From: Tao (Tony) Tong 
>To: Tatsuro MATSUOKA  
>Cc: Ben Abbott  "help-octave
>Date: 2016/8/21, Sun 08:39
>Subject: Re: Does Octave 4 GUI work on Windows 10?
> 
>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: Ben Abbott 
>>>To: Tao (Tony) Tong  
>>>Cc: Ben Abbott ; "tmacchant; "help-octave
>>>Date: 2016/8/21, Sun 08:23
>>>Subject: Re: Does Octave 4 GUI work on Windows 10?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>>On Aug 20, 2016, at 6:26 PM, Tao (Tony) Tong <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 3:05 PM, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>--- ttmofy wrote:
>>>>>> I am a new user of Octave.  I installed Octave 4.03 about a week ago on 
>>>>>> my
>>>>>> Windows 10.  It was working all okay.  Then at some point, it shut itself
>>>>>> down.  When I tried to restart the program, it started showing the exact
>>>>>> error message you described "octave-gui.exe has stopped working. A 
>>>>>> problem
>>>>>> caused the program to work correctly. Windows will close the program and
>>>>>> notify you if a solution is available."  I tried 
>>>>>> uninstalling/reinstalling,
>>>>>> and the Compatibility setting you described, but none have worked so far.
>>>>>> Any further clue on why this is the case?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>>> Tony
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>To narrow your problem, I ask you whether cli mode octave works or not.
>>>>>
>>>>>Tatsuro
>>>
>>>>
>>>Hi Tatsuro,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>No, the cli mode doesn't work either.  It flashes open, then closes 
>>>>immediately.  The first time, it paused before it quit.  The error message 
>>>>was similar, 'a problem caused the program to work (in)correctly..."  The 
>>>>Windows 10 did pop out a dialog window saying the application may have 
>>>>compatibility problem and asked me whether I would like to in a different 
>>>>mode.  I chose 'Windows 7", but it still doesn't work. 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Tony
>>>
>>>
>>>On MacOS, deleting the directory below has been show to resolve such 
>>>problems.
>>>
>>>
>>> ~/.config/octave/
>>>
>>>
>>>I’m not sure where this directory would be under Windows.
>>>
>>>
>>>Ben
>>>
>>
>>
>>On windows vista or later, 
>>".config" folder exists on the folder by which USERPROFILE enviromental 
>>variable points.
>>See how OS set USERPROFILE environmental variable, startup command prompt and 
>>type "set".
>>
>>The values of  environmental variables are displayed and you can see the 
>>value of USERPROFILE.
>>
>>Tatsuro
>>
>
>Thank you guys!  I just tried, located the '.config/octave', deleted it.  Now, 
>both cli and gui are working.  It seems some previous setting got messed up.  
>Really appreciated your help, otherwise it would take me a long time to figure 
>out or I might have given up on a great opensource software. 
>
>
>Tony


Glad to hear that you have solved your issue.
I described this information on the wiki.

http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Microsoft_Windows#Octave-4.0.3


Tatsuro