ROX questions

Sorry if this is too OT but I don’t know where else to ask about this as the old ROX email list seems to be defunct. So the first question is: Is it? I just tried to send an email and it got bounced as I’m – apparently – ‘not subscribed’. But I was, and can’t recall ever unsubscribing. And I haven’t found a sign of it anywhere on the web.

Second question is the real payload. I’m trying to help someone get a ROX app running and he is having puzzling problems. Wonder if anyone here who uses ROX can spot why and say what the fix should be. The details start on this page:

https://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/threads/vhf-sig-gen.223987/page-2

In particular from posting 27.

But in essence, I’ve written a simple ROX app that works fine on my machine, but someone who wants to use it keeps getting problems. As usual, trying to diagnose this ‘remotely’ is difficult and I’m not exactly an expert on Linux. So can anyone else see what’s wrong?

This error can mean that the executable is being run on the wrong architecture:

mark@mark-VirtualBox:~/Downloads/StereoMPXGenerator$ /home/mark/Downloads/StereoMPXGenerator/RunImage
bash: /home/mark/Downloads/StereoMPXGenerator/RunImage: No such file or directory

Or perhaps a dynamically linked library it needs is missing?

Someone else spotted the cause yesterday. It turned out that the user was assuming they had to specify the full pathname of the output file. But the program wants you to specify the directory. The program gives the file a name that tells the user details of what it contains. Then writes it into the directory the user (should have) specified.

Error messages actually came from the failure of the program to open a file and write to it! Alas, this crashed so quickly that previous diagnostics messages from the program didn’t get printed out.

I’ve modified the ‘Help’ to be more explicit about the need to give the output directory where the output will be put.

I’m still wondering about where anyone gets help with ROX-Filer, though. I routinely add to any new install, and tweak to taste. But there doesn’t now seem to be an email list or forum for newcomers to ask questions about it.