[GRASS5] xganim and motif requirement

[Helena Mitasova]

I use xganim a lot to check the results of simulations that produce 
time series of rasters and to preview
the rasters before doing more complex animations using file sequencing 
tool in nviz. As far as I know
there is no other command that would produce quick simultaneous 
animations of multiple raster series
(r.out.mpeg currently doesn't come anywhere close to the convenience of 
xganim, and you can do only one series).
BUT I would love to see the requirement for Motif/Lesstif go away, so 
if anybody can replace xganim with
a module with the same (or better) functionality without motif that 
would be great.
The module comes from times when motif was used for GRASS GUI (just 
another one that is not around anymore)
and nviz had motif-based interface too.

Helena


On Nov 22, 2005, at 12:58 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> I was recently thinking about various GRASS requirements, what with 
> all the GUI discussion.  And, I saw Markus' comment on the users list 
> that r3.showdspf funtionality is in NVIZ.  One other one I'm wondering 
> about - xganim.
>
> This is the only thing in GRASS (that I can see) that requires 
> Motif/Lesstif.  On Mac OS X at least, this is the only reason for 
> installing mo/lesstif, as everything else is TclTk/X11/GL.
>
> So, could xganim be changed to not use motif?  Or, like r3.showdspf, 
> is the funtionality included elsewhere now so it's not even needed.  I 
> see that NVIZ has some animation capabilities, but they look quite 
> different than simply animating a series of rasters.  Maybe with the 
> right options it could do the same?
>
>
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Helena Mitasova
Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atm. Sciences
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