[GRASS-dev] debugging nviz with TclTk 8.5 aqua

[Michael Barton]

On Jul 24, 2008, at 12:25 PM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:02:06 +0200
> From: Lorenzo Moretti <lorenzo.moretti at bologna.enea.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] debugging nviz with TclTk 8.5 aqua
> To: grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
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> One small contribute.
>
> I have built two month ago a Universal Binary version of Grass 6.3.0
> that run with TclTk 8.5.2 aqua and NVIZ works with TclTk 8.5.2 aqua.
> It run very fast in MacIntel because it's native:
> http://wwwamb.bologna.enea.it/forgrass/download
>
> NVIZ aqua screenshot:
> http://wwwamb.bologna.enea.it/forgrass/tutorial/01-tutorial/10-viewnviztot.htm
>
> The only problem is the menu inside the window but NVIZ works very  
> well.
>
> I have made ONE application only (about 400MB). Nothing to install:
> drag the GrassGIS.app to /Applications. All libraries are inside the
> application (mouse right clic and Show Package Contents -
> GrassGIS.app/Contents/Resources/grasslib).
> I have build a native TclTk aqua application (about 9MB - the name is
> Grass.app) and I have put it inside grasslib/bin. After I have made
> many symbolic links and I have changed some link with
> "install_name_tool" command.
>
> Grass with TclTk 8.5.2 aqua is very different from TclTk 8.4.x. It's
> smoother and more stable.
> Grass with TclTk 8.5.2 x11 in Mac OS X works well like any other OS
> but X11 is different for Mac user.

Thanks much Lorenzo. The screenshots are nice. I agree that TclTk 8.5x  
aqua seems a lot better than 8.4 versions. There are a few issues with  
nviz, but it doesn't seem like any of them are unfixable. 400Mb is  
pretty big. Why is it so large? The libraries?

Cheers
Michael