[GRASS-dev] nviz python thoughts

[William Kyngesburye]

On Dec 20, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Glynn Clements wrote:

> William Kyngesburye wrote:
>
>> I was thinking that all Python stuff (yes, I know it's experimental)
>> that compiles and runs on OSX should be so without fuss for the 6.4
>> release.  In particular NVIZ.  Currently, to get libnviz to compile  
>> we
>> must disable/delete render.c, which makes the not-working-yet-on-OSX
>> nviz_cmd fail to compile.
>>
>> If only nviz_cmd needs the render.c functions, could render.c be  
>> moved
>> to the nviz_cmd folder?  This would let libnviz compile on OSX and
>> make the wx GUI nviz operational.  nviz_cmd would still fail to
>> compile as expected, without affecting the GUI nviz compilation.
>
> Only nviz_cmd needs it at the moment, but the code is sufficiently
> general that it belongs in the library.
>
> Remind me: what is the specific problem with compiling it on OSX?


Opening and drawing into a Mac OpenGL window.  In all the other past  
and present forms, we've had some generic window system to use (Togl,  
Tk, wxPython), but it looks like this one is more low-level.

I wonder if it can be made to require and use wxPython, just like the  
GUI version of nviz (but without the rest of the GUI)?

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