[GRASS-dev] [grass-code patches][280] Fix Help button in gis.m raster/vector display conf locks up gis.m

[Michael Barton]

g.manual --quiet is a good solution. Thanks.

Michael
On Feb 11, 2007, at 11:03 PM, Hamish wrote:

> H:
>>>> Starting browser <open> for module d.rast...
>>>
>>> lib/init/init.sh sets this:
>>>
>>>   elif [ "$HOSTTYPE" = "macintosh" -o "$HOSTTYPE" = "powermac" -o
>>> "$HOSTTYPE" = "powerpc" ] ; then
>>>       GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=open
>>>
>>>
>>> As for MacOSX you can do "open URL" from the command line to launch
>>> safari.
>>>
>>> Apparently that forks itself into a background process, but that
>>> behavior is specific to OSX's "open" command. If GRASS_HTML_BROWSER
>>> is set to a regular program name, it probably won't background
>>> itself.
>
>
> sorry, the above is wrong. There is an override in scripts/g.manual:
>
> #hack for MacOSX:
> if [ "$HOSTTYPE" = "macintosh" ] ; then
>     BROWSERNAME="default Macintosh web browser"
>
> Michael Barton wrote:
>> Right. But why is a message generated to tell me that I am starting a
>> browser for module d.rast... This is what I intended to do, and a
>> message to this effect sent to stderr seems redundant. I can see
>> getting a message "Unable to open browser <open> for module
>> d.rast...", but I don't see why one is necessary to tell the user
>> that the program is indeed doing what it is supposed to do. (grumble
>> grumble grumble). This is a message that I don't remember seeing
>> before.
>
> That message has been there since the first version. I guess it is  
> like
> websites opening a new browser window instead of exiting the current
> page when you click on an external link (!@$@#%&*). Some sort of "not
> my fault if this doesn't work" absolving legaleese I guess. Also the
> new brower may take several seconds to load and the user may become
> impatient and open it twice, esp. if it returns to the prompt.
>
> options:
> 1) send the message to stderr with `echo "" 1>&2`, where all good
> shell script status messages should go.
> 2) "g.manual --quiet" makes it go away
> 2) restrict it to when "g.manual --verbose" is called
> 3) remove it (problem if GRASS_HTML_BROWSER is bad?)
> 4) do nothing
>
> #1 and #2 are now done in 6.3-CVS.
>
>
> Hamish

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