[GRASSLIST:1978] Re: raster display problem in 5.7

[Christopher Fonnesbeck]

On Dec 7, 2003, at 9:52 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:

>
> Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote:
>
>>> Ok, that'll probably be the Tcl/Tk problem Glynn was speaking of  
>>> then.
>>> There is a Mac version and a UNIX/X11 version, GRASS needs to be  
>>> built
>>> and used with the UNIX/X11 version (usually from FINK). If you are
>>> using
>>> Markus' binaries you can be pretty confident that it was built with  
>>> the
>>> X11 version, but you still need it installed on your system to use at
>>> run time. The Tcl/Tk driver program is called 'wish' and as Glynn  
>>> noted
>>> you can force GRASS to use a non-default version by installing to
>>> somewhere and then setting the enviromental variable GRASS_WISH in  
>>> your
>>> terminal before starting GRASS.
>>
>> But, it *was* working for awhile, then stopped working. I am using my
>> own build from CVS, with the OSX Tcl/Tk framework, which is used by  
>> the
>> OpenOSX GRASS (which works fine on my system).
>
> The OpenOSX version of GRASS has some changes specifically to allow
> the use of the native MacOSX version of Tcl/Tk. These are available
> from:
>
> http://grass.itc.it/grass5/binary/mac_os_x/OpenOSX-Additions-Grass 
> -5.0.2.tar.bz2
>
> However, there have been some changes to tcltkgrass since 5.0.2, so I
> have no idea whether those patches will work on more recent versions.
>

Thanks -- I got an important clue from the OpenOSX patches. Changing  
the $GRASS_GUI case in Init.sh from:

"$GISBASE/scripts/d.m" &

to:

echo "$GISBASE/scripts/d.m" | sh &

Seems to have done the trick.
--
Christopher J. Fonnesbeck ( c h r i s @ f o n n e s b e c k . o r g )
Georgia Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, University of Georgia