[GRASS-dev] Re: winGRASS

[Michael Barton]

Paul,

There are some aesthetic issues with aqua TclTk. It creates larger widgets
with extra space around them, for example. There are also a few
functionality issues, but not serious ones anymore (at least I don't think
so). Because most GRASS users are working in Linux, I try to use the x11
version for development to make sure it 'looks good' in that platform. I
should probably try the aqua version again to see how it is doing now.

William's compilations of nviz always seem to work currently and mine always
seem to fail. 

I think that the nviz part of the compilation does respect the
--with-opengl=x11 or --with-opengl=aqua flag, but does not seem to respect
the --with-tcltk-includes=/usr/local/tcltk/include and
--with-tcltk-libs=/usr/local/tcltk/lib flags. It just goes to the system
default. I don't know enough about tweaking compilation parameters to know
how to fix this (In fact I don't hardly anything about tweaking compilation
parameters).

Michael


On 2/7/07 5:20 AM, "Paul Kelly" <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello Michael
> If you use the --with-opengl=aqua configure option then nviz will use the
> aqua Tcl/Tk, but I thought that was desired?
> See William's comments here:
> http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass-dev/2006-November/027480.html
> 
> Perhaps William just compiled his in the brief period while it was
> working, and now it is no longer working again?
> 
> Just an idea
> 
> Paul
> 
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> I have a problem like this on versions of GRASS that I compile myself on my
>> Mac. It doesn't happen on versions that William Kyngesbury compiles. In my
>> case, all of GRASS is correctly compiling against an x11 tcltk that I
>> specify, but nviz insists on compiling against an aqua version also on my
>> machine. It creates a bad nviz binary file (the one that Bob's script
>> calls). I can substitute one that William compiles and all is well. Maybe
>> something similar is happening to you?
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> 
>> On 2/6/07 5:39 PM, "Paul Kelly" <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> Another outstanding issue is Nviz. It was working on Windows for a while
>>> (looked great with Michael's new user interface improvements) but since
>>> Bob changed it back to the script startup rather than running the nviz.exe
>>> executable directly it no longer works on Windows. In fact I recently
>>> tried to revert those changes and found it still wouldn't work; got stuck
>>> at the Please Wait screen. A pity, because there is probably very little
>>> needs changed to have it working again.
>> 
>> __________________________________________
>> Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
>> School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>> Arizona State University
>> 
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>> 

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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton