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

[Michael Barton]

Thanks Cedric.

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

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> From: Cedric Shock <cedricgrass at shockfamily.net>
> Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 13:44:51 -0700
> To: <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> Cc: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>, Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>,
> Paolo Cavallini via RT <grass-bugs at intevation.de>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] [bug #4493] (grass) gis.m fails to start GUI
> 
> Michael, et. al.,
> 
> We don't have an "official" tcl/tk compatibility requirement. However I put in
> SUBMITTING_TCLTK that programs should work with both 8.3 and 8.4, which I
> believe are both an absolute must. Due to the core nature of gui.tcl, I've
> been testing my changes to gui.tcl against 8.0, 8.3, and 8.4, even though 8.0
> compatibility results in slightly less readable code (no end- index
> notation).
> 
> I believe the tk options database was added in version 4. Poking around online
> I found a tcl7.0/tk4.0 manual that mentions the options database almost
> identically to the 8.4 manual (the interface is identical, the documentation
> has barely changed).
> 
> offrelief sounds like something that should be moved to options.tcl, where it
> can be specified and the tk version tested for once. We could also make a
> class of a toolbar select button to keep the options thin. This is probably
> the best idea. I'll whip one up some time soon as an example.
> 
> --Cedric