[GRASS-dev] Current state of wxPython GUI

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2008/3/27, benjamin.ducke at ufg.uni-kiel.de <benjamin.ducke at ufg.uni-kiel.de>:
>  1. Starting "from" scratch, i.e. with no prior GRASS login and
>  no .grassrc6 file present, the wx GUI intro screen is dysfunctional.
>  It does not let you specify any mapsets in a GRASS DB directory.
>  The error message is:
>
>     "Error in command execution g.mapset"
>     Execution failed: 'g.mapset -l location=borkeld
>     gisdbase=/home/benni/grass-db'
>
>     Details:
>
>     (empty)
>
>  I get this error when first browsing to the "GIS Data Directory" (not
>  sure this is a good name, as it seems very generic) and then selecting
>  any location name.
>  If I first start with the old Tcl/Tk GUI, then select a mapset there,
>  then logout and start with the wx GUI, things work fine.

this should be fixed in trunk now [1] (this bug has been introduced
recently, it is not affecting releasebranch_6_3 at all). Can you
confirm it?

>  2. Both wxGUI and the old gis.m crash on startup if the location does
>  not have any valid projection information. Is that really necessary?

Any GRASS location should have valid information about projection.
Anyway it is not reason for crashing GUI. I will take a look.

>  3. Dragging any toolbars in the "Map Display" window of the wxpython GUI
>  makes it crash.

It can be issue of wxPython version you are using.

>  4. When starting with an empty "Layer Manager": after adding the first
>  layer (vector in my case), the "Map Display" does not draw anything when
>  clicking on the "Display map" icon. I need to click on "Re-render map".
>  This seems counter-intuitive to me.

Just enable auto-rendering (right-most checkbox in the map display statusbar).

Martin

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/30759

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