[GRASS5] grass cvs snapshot from 26. Feb.

Markus Neteler neteler at geog.uni-hannover.de
Fri Mar 2 13:49:45 EST 2001


Hi again,

On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:39:35PM +0100, Andreas Lange wrote:
[...]
> And as far as i know the cygwish80 shell is linked against the 
> Windows API, so it does not display on X11, but in the Win32 Window. 
> I was able to tweak tcltkgrass in a way to start with cygwish80, 
> but some functionalty will obviously not available on Win32 
> (process management, cmp. proc kill in gui.tcl, xlsclients in 
> proc search_xdrivers in gui.tcl, xwininfo in gui.tcl).
> It would be much easier to create a tcltkgrass that switches functions 
> on win32/unix and displays in the native Win32 windows. 
> This would require to write a new driver (e. g. a driver that 
> uses OpenGL and the GLUT toolkit). I still believe that an OpenGL 
> driver would be a nice solution as it would work on X11 and on Win32. 
> The OpenGL and the X11 concept are not that different conceptually. 

This seems to be the only realistic way to get GRASS working properly
on Windows and Unix with the same driver.
Can't we use the NVIZ window as it is openGL based? Of course this couldn't
done in a few minutes!

[...]
> cu,
> 
> Andreas

Regards

 Markus

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