[GRASS5] Grass 5.0.0 TclTk 8.4 on Jaguar

[Jeshua Lacock]

Greetings,

I have built Grass 5.0.0 with almost all of the options enabled along 
with all the dependencies (full report and binaries to follow soon) on 
Mac OS X 10.2.1 (Jaguar) with gcc 3.1. This is exciting because the 
binaries will be at least 20% faster than my previous binaries running 
on the same system. And on my jaguar system it seems like at least 300% 
faster than the same system when it was running 10.1 - VERY SNAPY. 
Hooray!

After a little bit of hacking around I was able to get the tcltk 
interface to work with the Mac OS X native (Cocoa) port of tcltk 8.4.0. 
A half size screen shot is available at:

    <http://OpenOSX.com/grass/tcltk8.4.screen.jpg>

For the most part It mostly just needs some minor cosmetic 
improvements. Here are some issues with the interface:

A. The menu bar is currently more than 1200 pixels wide. Wider than the 
average monitor, I suppose.

B. The buttons of the modules are slightly too small to be completely 
legible, see:
    <http://OpenOSX.com/grass/tcltk8.4.module.jpg>

C. If you tear off a menu it appears above the top menu bar see:
    <http://OpenOSX.com/grass/tcltk8.4.tear.jpg>

D. Using the X0 (X1, etc.) monitor still uses the non native XFree 
library to display. I plan on eventually eliminating XFree altogether - 
any comments and ideas are appreciated.

Any advice on the best way to accomplish these objectives would be 
appreciated.


Cheers,

Jeshua Lacock __________________________
Programmer/Owner            Phone:   760.935.4736
http://OpenOSX.com           Fax:        760.935.4845
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