[GRASS5] Re: [Fwd: whinging about GRASS again]

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:19:31AM -0600, Mark P. Line wrote:
> Markus Neteler said (with snips):
> >
> > Only: I don't know how to program tcl/tk and have no time to
> > learn it.
> >
> > Voluteers needed.
> > General suggestion: *Make* little things instead of proposing big
> > changes. Above suggestion from PC + mine could be implemented in
> > maybe 0.5h by someone knowing tcl/tk. Unfortunately it won't
> > happen... sigh.
> >
> > Still pessimistic to find a tcl/tk programmer who makes a clean-up
> > of the start screen layout (idea on paper on my table).
> > And adds the desired button for calling the "create location from data
> > set" script.
> >
> > Any hope?
> 
> I played around with Tcl/Tk years ago, but I no longer really count it as
> a language I'm fluent in. (That doesn't mean I won't take a look at the
> Tcl/Tk bugs/wishes once I have the head branch configured, compiled and
> running on my SuSE 9.2.)
> 
> I'd be working about 10 times faster if I could use Java/Swing for GUI
> work, but that would introduce Yet Another Platform (albeit one that works
> on everything from cellphones to mainframes). It becomes a question of
> whether the impedance-matching overhead is worth the benefits the platform
> might buy us.

Please not that 'JAVAGRASS' is under development:
http://www.hydrologis.com
 
> In any event, Markus is calling for small adaptations to existing stuff
> rather than larger changes, so I guess I'd better go find some recent
> documentation for Tcl/Tk... :)

Right - for now I just hope for little improvements. Big things may be done
in parallel.

Thanks

 Markus