[GRASS-windows] Features not yet implemented

[Peter Brooks]

Many thanks Markus for the speedy reply - that makes a lot of sense.

I hope I didn't found ungrateful... it is a very powerful system, and 
free!  Many thanks to you and all the developers.

Regards
Peter

On 9 Aug 2009 at 21:21, Markus Neteler wrote:

Hi Peter,

just a quick answer:

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Peter Brooks<peter at timedworld.com>
wrote: > Hi... I'm new to GRASS but not to GIS.  Downloaded 6.4, and
got to > grips with the wxPython GUI, which seems a lot more 
intuitive
than > the TclTk GUI.

great to hear that (the main author is AFAIK currently on holidays).

> I bought the comprehensive (but pricey) 'OPEN SOURCE GIS - A GRASS
> GIS Approach' and am running through the examples but it seems a lot
> of commands don't work in the new GUI... even d.erase comes back
> with "Command 'd.erase' not yet implemented." (although there is a
> button in the map display window that does just that!)

A lot will be the family of d.* commands, right? Indeed, they
are not available *in* the wxPython GUI but in the terminal
window (when using a Unix based operating system).
In the GUI you can use the icons instead.
One day there will be hopefully the possibility to control the
wxGUI monitor from d.* commands.

> I also run a Mac and the same thing happens with the new GUI on
> that.

Yes, but here you can use the terminal window (the so called shell).
Just enter the commands there and 99.9% should work :)

> Does anyone know why this is, and when (or in what version) it is
> likely to be fixed?  It is a little disconcerting to a new user
> running through the book (yeah, I know it is Windows, and software
> on that platform is meant to be full of bugs :-)

The book should be ok for Windows, too, with the current exception of
the d.* commands. Note: the cygwin GRASS version even supports that
since it comes with a X server but it will be prepared only for the
final release of 6.4.0.

Again, the hope is to have a wxPython based portable family of d.*
commands in the future. The more people join the programming, the
faster we'll arrive there (a prototype is in SVN but not active right
now).

Hope this clarifies a bit,
Markus