[GRASS-dev] [bug #4493] (grass) gis.m fails to start GUI

[Michael Barton]

This is not the only feature of the new GUI that was released with 8.4 and
probably won't work with 8.3.

TclTk 8.4.01 was released September 2002, when GRASS 4.something was still
current and GRASS 5 was in development. TclTk 8.5 is now in beta and we are
now talking about switching to a new GUI platform. TclTk is open source and
anyone can update to at least an old version of 8.4.

There are just not enough of us to maintain compatibility so far back into
prior versions, and it would affect both usability and appearance of the
GUI. We are maintaining the old d.m, which I believe is compatible with 8.3
at least and maybe back to 8.1. The fixes to maintain backward compatibility
4 years back are more than I have time to do (especially to try and find
workarounds for functionality from 8.4 that we are using) and is very low on
my priority list.

Michael
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
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> From: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 13:26:18 +1200
> To: Request Tracker <grass-bugs at intevation.de>
> Cc: <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] [bug #4493] (grass) gis.m fails to start GUI
> 
>> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=4493
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>> 
>> Subject: gis.m fails to start GUI
>> 
>> Platform: GNU/Linux/x86
>> grass obtained from: CVS
>> grass binary for platform: Compiled from Sources
>> GRASS Version: GRASS 6.1.cvs (20060520)
>> 
>> Name: Steven Trogdon
>> 
>> Error description:
>> 
>> Typing "grass61" at the unix shell prompt opens the grass Startup
>> window. Clicking on "Enter GRASS" yields
> ..
>> GRASS 6.1.cvs > Error in startup
> script: unknown option "-offrelief"
>>     while executing
>> "radiobutton $tb.pointer  -image [image create photo -file
>> "$iconpath/gui-pointer.gif"]  -command "MapCanvas::stoptool $mon"
> 
> 
> "-offrelief" seems to be new for Tcl/Tk 8.4.
>  http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/82.html
> 
> We shouldn't use anything that isn't tcltk 8.3 compatible.
> The requirements page says "8.x", so we probably need to stay
> compatible with 8.0, 8.1 too.
> 
> 
> Hamish
> 
>