[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #693: wxGUI menus: i.ortho.photo locks up GUI

[GRASS GIS]

#693: wxGUI menus: i.ortho.photo locks up GUI
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  Reporter:  hamish  |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new                      
  Priority:  major   |   Milestone:  6.4.0                    
 Component:  wxGUI   |     Version:  svn-develbranch6         
Resolution:          |    Keywords:  i.ortho.photo            
  Platform:  All     |         Cpu:  x86-64                   
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Comment (by hamish):

 Replying to [comment:20 cmbarton]:
 > This works, but there is not much point to the change. Calling
 > d.mon just has the Terminal start xterm. If there is no xterm
 > package, it will fail non-gracefully.
 >
 > To avoid an xterm, we need to run the grass-xterm-mac wrapper
 > for d.mon, not the text prompt/response interface.

 ? d.mon doesn't go near an xterm. it just starts the x0 display
 window.

 the xterm (or xterm-alike) is launched later. $GRASS_UI_TERM is
 set to avoid the curses based text window "TUI" ending up as broken
 rubbish in the tcl/wx module GUI output window. The question/response
 parser stuff is just an unfortuante byproduct of that.


 > You can try to switch it or I can try later this week.

 I already have changed it to try the mac wrapper (in 6.5).

 Q: how to get wxgui.py to detect Cygwin so that does try an xterm instead
 of a "start" dos box? is there a $CYGWIN enviro var or similar? os.* or
 sys.* smart enough to pick it up?


 > I agree about the greyout for Windows users. I think it can be
 > done but need to figure out how.

 worst case a patch could be applied as part of the mswindows packaging
 script.


 Hamish

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