[GRASS-dev] Re: winGRASS

[Glynn Clements]

Paul Kelly wrote:

> > Ideally, on Windows, grass-xterm-wrapper should be a .bat/.cmd script
> > which ignores GRASS_XTERM and does this automatically.
> 
> This is the way I have handled a similar thing in lib/gtcltk/gronsole.tcl 
> (for the "Run in xterm" button in the gis.m command Window):
> 
>  	if { $mingw == "1" } {
>  	    exec -- cmd.exe /c start $env(GISBASE)/etc/grass-run.bat $cmd &
>  	} else {
>  	    exec -- $env(GISBASE)/etc/grass-xterm-wrapper -name xterm-grass -e $env(GISBASE)/etc/grass-run.sh $cmd &
>  	}
> 
> where grass-run.bat sets the console Window title, forces terminal parser 
> mode, runs the command, pauses at the end and prints a note if the command 
> has exited with a non-zero return value. Just a duplicate of the 
> functionality of grass-run.sh really.
> 
> Setting the GRASS_XTERM variable to a suitable value that it works on 
> Windows without the $mingw check in the Tcl script sounds like a neat idea 
> however if it works.

If it works, a grass-xterm-wrapper.bat file would work for everything
which currently uses grass-xterm-wrapper without the need for the user
to set GRASS_XTERM. Actually, setting GRASS_XTERM relies upon the
existing grass-xterm-wrapper shell script getting run, which
presumably won't happen on MinGW?

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>