[GRASS-dev] Mac OS X frameworks for support libraries

[William Kyngesburye]

NVIZ does work on Intel in X11.  I only had problems when trying to  
start the X11 NVIZ from gis.m running in an Aqua Tcl/Tk.  In an X11  
Tcl/Tk NVIZ will start from gis.m.  NVIZ will start from the Terminal  
no matter which Tcl/Tk is used by gis.m.

Have you tried the new version of GRASS.app and the frameworks from  
today?  The previous one had some startup issues in certain cases.

On Jul 29, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Agustin Diez Castillo wrote:

> William's comments explain me what is going on a IBook, grass  
> doesn't work and the terminal keeps giving a message about location  
> not being initialized (I don't remember the exact message now).  
> This weird behavior happens only in the main user. It seems that  
> somehow
> Sad to hear that NVIZ doesn't work at all in MacIntel I want to buy  
> a MacBookPro.
> In some of my several attempts to compile grass, NVIZ was working  
> when started from X11 terminal, but after get rid of the problems  
> the errors messages when compiling nviz doesn't work.
> Agustin
>
>> On Jul 28, 2006, at 5:06 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
>>
>>> William,
>>>
>>> I'll wait for your next beta to try it. I and many others would  
>>> like to exit
>>> both gism and grass together, but this is more complicated than  
>>> it seems. No
>>> one has figured it out yet. The easiest way would be to start  
>>> gism then
>>> grass, rather than grass then gism. But this is another issue.
>>>
>>> Normally exiting grass kills wish, and hence gism. But gism could  
>>> keep
>>> running if started within grass (it needs grass environmental  
>>> variables to
>>> get going).
>>>
>> Hm, tried it again with latest snapshot.  GRASS.app starts GRASS  
>> in Terminal, and starts GUI in X11 Wish.  Quit GRASS in Terminal  
>> and GUI stays running in X11 Wish.  Any attempt to do stuff in GUI  
>> then gives Location not set error.
>>
>> I looked at process ownership - Wish starts out with the GRASS  
>> shell as the parent.  After quitting GRASS with the Wish GUI still  
>> running, Wish now has launchd (process 1) as the parent.  Happens  
>> with both X11 Wish and Aqua Wish.  GRASS doesn't seem to be  
>> killing Wish, just letting it go on with its life.  hehe, some  
>> parenting and animal behaviours come to mind...
>>
>>> In Lorenzo's app, I've successfully started gism in TclTk aqua  
>>> and used the
>>> bash terminal. It all works without x11--except of course  
>>> v.digit, nviz, and
>>> a couple other modules.
>>>
>> I've found an odd problem.  First, with X11 Wish (don't set  
>> GRASS_WISH or GRASS_TCLSH in .bash_profile), start GRASS.app.  GUI  
>> starts in X11.  Select mapset and start NVIZ from GUI.  All OK -  
>> NVIZ works normally and starts directly in NVIZ with no rasters or  
>> vectors selected.  Quit everything.
>>
>> Change GRASS_WISH and GRASS_TCLSH to Aqua version in /usr/local/ 
>> bin.  Start GRASS.app, GUI opens in Aqua Wish.  Select mapset and  
>> start NVIZ.  NVIZ GUI startup dialog shows to select initial  
>> data.  Select something and Run.  NVIZ progress shows, then  
>> disappears.  No display.  NVIZ has a crashlog with something  
>> completely different from any previous crashes - it's crashing in  
>> G__open_cell_old.
>>
>> BUT, while still in the Aqua Wish GUI, if I start NVIZ from the  
>> Terminal, it works.
>>
>> So, now NVIZ doesn't work from the Aqua GUI.  But otherwise works  
>> normally.
>>
>> Haven't tried Aqua NVIZ again, but thanks to Amilcar Challu, I've  
>> verified that NVIZ Aqua doesn't work on Intel Macs at all - it's  
>> not the graphics card difference.
>>
>> -----
>> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos at kyngchaos.com>
>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>>
>> "Those people who most want to rule people are, ipso-facto, those  
>> least suited to do it."
>>
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