[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS5] GEM in CVS

[Benjamin Ducke]

No panic,

to get gis.m back to work, just delete the menu hook in 
$GISBASE/etc/gm/Xtns/.

Quick fix:
There should be a file with the extension .gem in there.
This is the source of your trouble. Delete it and
gis.m will start again!

Explanation:
Extensions store menu files for gis.m in $GISBASE/etc/gm/Xtns
These files are snippets of tcl menu code with extension .gem
They must be properly formatted tcl programs!
The format is, unfortunately, a little bit tricky and every
bracket counts ;)

But the good thing is that this allows you to use arbitratily
complex menu entries for your extension.

I suspect that your extension has a file entries-gisman2 in its
extension directory. This file contains the tcl code to be installed.
For a single module it should look something like this:

cascad "MyExtension" {} "" $tmenu {{command "Run my command" {} 
"r.my.cmd" {} -command {execute r.my.cmd }}}

If you don't want any of this right now, just delete entries-gisman2 
from your extension files and nothing will be installed.

Don't worry about the warning. It is caused by a recent change
in the layout of $GISBASE/docs/html/index.html
I will fix this as soon as I get CVS access running.

Sören Gebbert wrote:
> Hi,
> i just tried to install a GRASS extension via GEM.
> But after the semi successful installation, my gis.m manager wont start anymore. :(
> 
> This is what i have done:
> 
> I compiled GEM as it is written in the docu, then i installed the RasterTools Extension with:
> 
> gem -v --install=/home/soeren/src/RasterTools.tar.gz --grass=/usr/local/grass-6.1.cvs
> 
> This warning occurs while the installation:
> 
> WARNING: Unknown format of index.html. Unable to register HTML man pages.
> 
> Then i startet grass61 and the gis.m manager stoped with this error:
> 
> Mapset <testmapset> in Location <TestLocation>                                                                         
> GRASS 6.1.cvs > Error in startup script: unmatched open brace in list
>     while executing
> "llength $menu"
>     (procedure "MainFrame::create" line 62)
>     invoked from within
> "MainFrame::create .mainframe -menu \n\ \"&File\"\ all\ file\ 1\ \{\n\t\ \{casca                                       d\ \"Import\"\ \{\}\ \"\"\ 1\ \{\t\t\t\n\ \t\t\{cascad\ \"Raster\ map\"..."
>     ("eval" body line 1)
>     invoked from within
> "eval MainFrame::create $path $args"
>     (procedure "MainFrame" line 1)
>     invoked from within
> "MainFrame .mainframe  -menu $descmenu  -textvariable Gm::status  -progressvar                                         Gm::prgindic "
>     (procedure "Gm::create" line 29)
>     invoked from within
> "Gm::create"
>     (procedure "main" line 29)
>     invoked from within
> "main $argc $argv"
>     (file "/usr/local/grass-6.1.cvs/etc/gm/gm.tcl" line 522)
> 
> The error is an unopen brace ... well .... but i have absolutely no clue of tcl and where to look 
> for this???
> Can somebody please help me to get the gis.m back to work, without removing and installing grass again?
> 
> Many Thanks
> Soeren
> 
> On Thursday 04 May 2006 09:10, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> 
>>Thanks to Markus' help,
>>the code for the GRASS Extensions Manager (GEM) is now in the CVS.
>>Seeing that gis.m has made quite some progress lately and that
>>it will likely become the default GUI for the next stable GRASS,
>>this means we will be able to offer users a simple and seamless
>>way to download and add extensions to a running GRASS installation.
>>Perhaps this would be a good point to think which modules
>>could in the future be developed outside the GRASS base and put into
>>extensions.
>>In the next weeks I will hopefully find some time to update all
>>the extensions on my webpage so you can try the integration
>>of extensions with gis.m
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>Benjamin
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 

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