[GRASS-dev] Re: select issue with wingrass

[Moritz Lennert]

On 06/11/07 03:16, Michael Barton wrote:
> I have a postdoc who just arrived to learn a bit of GRASS in my lab 
> today. He installed WinGRASS about a week ago. It launches fine. But he 
> cannot see any of the map files inside the mapset when he tries to add a 
> map to a GUI window. This is controlled by select.tcl. We checked this 
> against the Spearfish dataset and confirmed that the data are fine and 
> that he does have access to the maps. In fact, if he types in a map 
> name, any module seems to run fine--including displaying a map in the 
> GIS Manager.
> 
> When you click a button to launch select.tcl, you get a window/dialog 
> with a tree which shows available mapsets and, if they exist, any 
> accessible maps in the mapset. You can select a map and click OK. 
> Everything works for Javi except seeing the maps inside the mapsets. He 
> can even see the mapsets (first level of the tree); just not the maps 
> inside a mapset.
> 
> A first guess on my part is something to do with translating forward 
> slash for *nix and Mac "/" to backward slash for Windows "\". The odd 
> thing is that this worked fine with earlier builds of WinGRASS, so maybe 
> it's something else.
> 
> Have either of you guys run into this?

No, I've never had that problem. I'll test, but won't be in front of a 
win machine before tomorrow.

Moritz