[GRASS-dev] GSOC 2018 project for GRASS GIS

[Anna Petrášová]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:20 PM, Sanjeet <edu.sanjeet at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 10:50 PM, Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Sanjeet,
>
> Hi Anna,
>
>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 9:08 PM, Sanjeet <edu.sanjeet at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would leave that up to you, you can send it in email, post it on
>> your github or whatever seems convenient for you.
>
> I will share the list soon.
>
>> Regarding the GUI, you can look at this ticket:
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/3510
>>
>> Basically, the GUI is mostly ported to work with wxPython4 (phoenix),
>> which is (unlike wxpython 3) Python 3 ready. So far we are running the
>> GUI on Python 2.7 only. There are some loose ends and depreciation
>> warnings, which would be nice to get rid of. Since we need to keep
>> backwards compatibility with wxpython 3, we wrapped some GUI classes
>> (gui/wxpython/gui_core/wrap.py), so you can start there. You need to
>> test your changes under both wxpython 3 and 4. Let me know if you need
>> more clarification. More info what is Attribute Table manager:
>>
>> https://grass.osgeo.org/grass75/manuals/wxGUI.dbmgr.html
>> https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/WxGUI_Attribute_Table_Manager
>
> Meanwhile, I've setup my development environment and compiled the
> source code. I did not see the warning messages when I opened the
> Attribution Table Manager as mentioned in the ticket #3510 even when I
> installed wxpython 4 (on system Ubuntu 16.04 with Python 2.7.x).
>
> Is it supposed to be displaying in the console? Because I did not get
> any warnings.
> I even tried to set the g.gisenv set="DEBUG=5" to print the debugging
> messages along with WX_DEBUG. Am I missing some step?

Look in the GUI console (second tab at the bottom in Layer Manager).
You can check if you are indeed running wxpython 4 easily from GUI, go
to Python tab and try:
>>> import wx
>>> wx.version()
4.0.1 gtk2 (phoenix)

I would recommend running it in virtualenv.


>
> Thanks
> --
> Sanjeet Bhatti