OpenEV update /multiopen problems with histogram tool

[zachary@…]

During default install of FWTools099.exe (no MRSID), at the point in the 
install script where it says:

Execute: "C:\Program Files\FWTools0.9.9\python\python.exe" "C:\Program 
Files\FWTools0.9.9\pymod\fwpostinstall.py" "C:\Program Files\FWTools0.9.9"

I get a popup with the following error:
python.exe - Unable to locate component
"This application has failed to start because python23.dll was ot found. Re-
installing the application may fix this problem."

Both python.exe and python23.dll are in the same directories they were under 
the fwtools 0.98

Also when I load up OpenEV_FW now, it works, but I get an error in the console 
window:
Loading tools from C:\PROGRA~1\FWTOOL~1.9\tools\gvrastertools.py
... failed to load ... skipping.

It's the same gvrastertools.py that was under fwtools 0.98
I don't know if this problem is related to the python install one.  Nothing 
seems to crash yet despite all these messages.

[warmerdam]

Zachary,

The problem with running fwpostinstall.py has been corrected, and a new
FWTools099.exe uploaded.  The failure just means that the visual basic 
stubs don't have the DLL path corrected.  No big deal for most people.

I have determined that gvrastertools.py was not loading because gvplot.py
now has a dependency on pygtk.py which doesn't exist in the old pygtk package
I am using for FWTools.  I have modified gvplot.py to no longer have this
dependency. 

However, I see the primary tool from gvrastertool.py (the histogram tool)
still doesn't work because of issues on windows with trying to open files
in update mode for display, and then trying to open again later for histogram
purposes. 

I will leave this bug open to deal with that.


So, outstanding issue is:

 o Open a raster file in OpenEV and by default it is opened in update mode.
 o Invoke histogram analysis on it, and it will not work because the next
   attempt to open the file fails since on win32 fopen(....,"r+") locks the  
   file.

[warmerdam]

I have determined this problem (with reopening already open-for-update files
is somewhat unique to FWTools and TIFF and relates to the fact that tif_win32.c
uses the FILE_SHARE_READ flag meaning that any file opened in update mode can't
be shared.

...
I have corrected my local libtiff build to use FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE.
This solves the opening problem, but for some reason the histogram tool is 
*still* not working!