[GRASS5] Re: bugs in 5.7's tcltkgrass

[Michael Barton]

Maciek,

The couple items I can fix are fixed. However, you note a couple other bugs
that will need to be fixed by one of the folks who does programming for the
command modules.


On 10/14/04 2:55 PM, "Maciek Sieczka" <werchowyna at pf.pl> wrote:

> Hello Michael,
> 
> this reports refer to the precompiled 5.7 09_10_2004, installed on Mandrake
> 9.2
> 
> 1. r.contour
> when invoked r.contour& from the grass terminal I get:
> (...)
> Continue?(y/n) [y]

This is left over from porting this from 5.3. It needs to be changed in the
command module. Probably pretty easy to fix now it has been reported.


> 
> and it stops
> (in 5.3 there was a separate terminal called for this)
> 
> even worse when r.contour is invoked from within the tcltkgrass menu - it
> hangs completely and freezes the tcltkgrass menu for good

ditto

> 
> 2. BTW one similar bug in s.surf.rst in 5.3's tcltkgrass:
> WARNING: old data format detected.
> Convert site file to new format?
> Answering yes will modify your site list file.(y/n)

I fixed this very recently and committed it to the CVS. I hope it is still
fixed.

> 
> and it stops here
> 
> 3. all modules I tried in 5.7 display this instead of percents only:
> Percent complete:    2%   5%   8% (...) 100%

On my computer, it goes:

Percent complete: 2%/b/b/b/b5%/b/b/b and so forth...most of the time. Other
times, it stops after a few increments, then does nothing until 100%


> 
> 4. r.surf.contour menu entry is still called "(...) spline with tension
> (...)"

This is fixed in the update I'm about to commit to the CVS

> 
> 5. v.surf.rst menu fails to start (gives a big "Application error" window)
> when invoked from the tcltkgrass but pops up fine when invoked using
> v.surf.rst& in the Grass terminal

This is also fixed

> 
> 6. d.measure sometimes displays such things:
> 
> Warning - no response from graphics monitor <x0>.
> Check to see if the mouse is still active.

You need to have a monitor open and selected, with a map.

> 
> and such a message after:
> 
> 

This is a bug, but is not (I hope) a problem from the GIS Manager any
longer. From the command line/command module, you need use d.measure -s to
avoid this problem. It would be nice to have this fixed, but there is a
pretty easy workaround (the -s flag).

Michael 

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