[GRASS-dev] TclTk animator finished - replaces xganim

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 02:21:43AM -0700, Hamish wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> > Could we have a script to launch it from command line, too, to
> > replace "xganim" in C? Then, if all functionality is covered, we
> > could deprecate the C version.
> 
> anyone know what "xganim" stands for? X for X11 + g for GRASS + animate?
> 
> Why not call the new script d.animate rather than hold onto the old "x"?

excellent idea...!
 
> It's not like xganim is a scriptable module and we need to preserve the
> executable name. (ok r.game_of_life scripts it) For rigid brains we could add a
> symlink to the name xganim for the rest of GRASS 6, or just leave xganim alone
> and remove for GRASS 7.

right.

> anyhow, the new version needs to be as fast, featureful, and stable as the old
> before we kill xganim, IMO.

Of course. But I am so much CLI oriented that I would like to
test from CLI (hopefully it is not impossible to wrap
 gui/tcltk/gis.m/animate.tcl
into d.animate).

Markus

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