[GRASS-dev] Mac xterm wrapper problem with wxgrass

[Michael Barton]

On 6/25/07 8:48 PM, "William Kyngesburye" <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:

> Ah, that sort of hang.  I gave it a try, and it looks like the
> 'osascript' I use is not exiting (use Activity Monitor and show All
> Processes Hierarchically, and you can see it under Python).  Quitting
> osascript (no need to force quit it) returns to Python.
> 
> And I verified that setting GRASS_XTERM=xterm, d.rast.edit does
> return control to Python.
> 
> hmmm....
> 
> Ah, that's got it!  I was saving the name of the application that
> initiates grass-xterm-wrapper so I could activate it when it
> finishes, otherwise the Terminal is left active.  While X11/TclTk
> seems to be OK with this, Python is not.  For some reason it stalls
> between closing the Terminal window and activating Python.
> 
> For now I disabled the reactivation of the calling app until I can
> figure out how to get Python to like it.  In CVS now.

That did it! Thanks.

Michael

> 
> On Jun 25, 2007, at 9:53 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> Oops. I spoke too soon. It still hangs.
>> 
>> Here is what I'm doing to test it. I start r.digit from the wxgrass
>> menu. It
>> launches an xmonitor and terminal properly. Then I hit return to
>> cancel. The
>> program shuts down, but I get a spinning beach ball with the
>> wxgrass GUI,
>> and have to force quite wxPython.
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/25/07 6:51 PM, "William Kyngesburye" <woklist at kyngchaos.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jun 25, 2007, at 7:50 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> BUT, there is still the problem on PPC where once grass-xterm-
>>>>> wrapper
>>>>> runs, a new GRASS.app will not run until Terminal.app is quit (and
>>>>> thus all other running GRASS sessions).
>>>>> 
>>>> I don't think this is a real problem. On other systems, you can
>>>> only have
>>>> one GRASS session running at a time.
>>> 
>>> Actually, I think you can.  Just not more than one in the same
>>> mapset.
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton