[GRASS5] fixed 2 bugs in GIS Manager GRASS 6

[Michael Barton]

Helena and others,

This program (not the version that Helena just fixed) is launching fine from
the menus on my desktop G5. It was launching erratically on my PowerBook
last night. On my PowerBook,  it wants to print all the help text to the
terminal when I launch it. This is not happening on my desktop. Why? I have
absolutely no idea.

I think that Paul is on the right track, but there may be more to it than
just the author citation. It should only print the usage/man page
information from the command line with the -h switch. There is an
undocumented gui flag that Glynn has described but that I can't find at the
moment and I can't remember what it does. This might help (I'm a big help,
yes?). At the moment, I'll keep the menu entry calling v.surf.rst as it is
because I can't see changing it has any useful effects. However, if we can
get some kind of consistent--proper--behavior I'll update the menu as needed
to do this.

Michael
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> From: Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at unity.ncsu.edu>
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:53:52 -0500
> To: Paul Kelly <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk>
> Cc: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>, Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>,
> <grass5 at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS5] fixed 2 bugs in GIS Manager GRASS 6
> 
> Paul Kelly wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Michael Barton wrote:
>> 
>>> This error is erratic. The most consistent way I've been able to reproduce
>>> it and get v.surf.rst to work is the following:
>>> 
>> [...]
>>> 
>>> It seems to choke on the line:
>>> 
>>> Authors: original version -  H.Mitasova, L.Mitas, I. Kosinovsky, D.P. Gerdes
>>> See manual pages for reference and publications
>>> 
>>> This kind of output regularly causes programs called from the tcltk menus to
>>> fail. I've futzed with it a bit and can't get it to run consistently. Can
>>> you perhaps not have it try to display this to the xterm? It ought to run OK
>>> then.
> 
> I have completely removed that line and it still gives the same error
> 
> GRASS 6.0.cvs:~/grasscvs6/grass6/vector/v.surf.rst >
> ERROR: Required parameter <input> not set:
>     (Name of the vector file with input data).
> 
> Helena
>                  
> Description:
>  Interpolation and topographic analysis from given point or contour data
> in vector format to GRASS floating point raster format using regularized
> spline with tension.
> 
>> 
>> Just a guess but perhaps in some places it writes to stdout and others to
>> stderr? IMHO for messages like that that aren't part of the GIS-related
>> output of the module, it should always be stderr: see
>> http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2004-October/015720.html
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
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