[GRASS-dev] GRASS-dev] New 'About Grass' and 'About System' errors in gis.m

[Michael Barton]

On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:00 AM, grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:05:00 -0500
> From: "Patton, Eric" <epatton at nrcan.gc.ca>
> Subject: [GRASS-dev] New 'About Grass' and 'About System' errors in
> 	gis.m
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> Cc: grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
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> Hi,
>
> These are a couple of new errors that I found today. Clicking  
> the'About Grass' menu option in the
> gis.m Help menu produces the following errors in a tcl/tk pop-up  
> dialog, after which an empty
> tcltk window opens with "About" in the titlebar:
>
> wrong # args: should be "setfont source"
> wrong # args: should be "setfont source"
>     while executing
> "setfont .helptext.frame $help_font"
>     (procedure "Gm::helptext" line 14)
>     invoked from within
> "Gm::helptext {About GRASS} {-width 75} {-justify left} $text"
>     (file "/usr/local/grass-6.3.svn/etc/gm/grassabout.tcl" line 96)
>     invoked from within
> "source /usr/local/grass-6.3.svn/etc/gm/grassabout.tcl"
>     invoked from within
> ".#menubar.#menubar#menu7 invoke active"
>     ("uplevel" body line 1)
>     invoked from within
> "uplevel #0 [list $w invoke active]"
>     (procedure "tk::MenuInvoke" line 50)
>     invoked from within
> "tk::MenuInvoke .#menubar.#menubar#menu7 1"
>     (command bound to event)
>
> The 'About System' produces a new kind of error than the one  
> reported a few weeks ago; when
> this menu option is selected, the following error is printed to the  
> system terminal:
>
> Error in startup script: couldn't read file "/usr/local/ 
> grass-6.3.svn/etc/gtcltk/gmlib.tcl": no such file or directory
>     while executing
> "source $env(GISBASE)/etc/gtcltk/gmlib.tcl"
>     (file "/usr/local/grass-6.3.svn/etc/gm/tksys.tcl" line 16)
>
> ~ Eric.
>

Fixed now in the SVN
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School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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