[GRASS5] d.m: nviz start bug

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 09:36:59AM -0700, Michael Barton wrote:
> At the moment, I've just put a warning label on my download site about this,
> saying you must run r3.createwind.

Mhh, but it's not needed any longer to run g3.createwind.

> I thought this was in the process of being fixed (already fixed??) so that
> nviz would generate a 3d region file (or parameters in the merged WIND/WIND3
> file) if it found them missing. So I thought that it was a non-issue that
> would go away on its own soon. Am I overly optimistic?

Yes, nviz generates a 3d region file if it found them missing.

The problem is that nviz in d.m seems to be started in a different
way. But I don't understand how/why.

It *should* work out of the box.

Markus

> On 12/10/04 7:50 AM, "Markus Neteler" <neteler at itc.it> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > a question concerning d.m:
> > While launching
> > 
> >  nviz el=elevation.dem
> > 
> > from CMD line works well, the lauch of
> > NVIZ from the d.m menu fails if the WIND3 file
> > was not generated yet:
> > 
> > It seems that the tcl part cannot handle
> > 
> > nviz
> > WARNING: G3d_readWindow: unable to find
> >          [/ssi0/ssi/neteler/grassdata/spearfish57/user1/WIND3].
> > Creating WIND3 File
> > 
> > 
> > My assumption is the G_warning message disturbs the tcl part.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Markus
> > 
> 
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