[GRASS-dev] Issues of 6.5 build on WinXP

[Michael Barton]

On Dec 31, 2009, at 4:10 PM, grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:

> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:30:16 +0100
> From: Jan To?ovsk? <j.tosovsky at tiscali.cz>
> Subject: RE: [GRASS-dev] Issues of 6.5 build on WinXP
> To: "'GRASS developers grass-developers'" <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
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>> I also took a look at Jan's video. Maybe I'm missing
>> something. He clicks on the add layer button but then does
>> not click on the button to view the map list for either
>> raster or vector. Maybe he is trying to type and it doesn't
>> show up in the video?
> 
> In the GUI there are two separate buttons for adding either raster or vector
> layer. When the button for raster layer is pressed, a dialog for selecting
> the raster map is shown. When another button (vector layer) is pressed, no
> dialog for selecting the vector map appears and a dummy vector layer is
> added automatically instead. I do not do anything else what is recorded on
> the video.
> 
> In the 6.4 build the bahaviour of both buttons is the same. In 6.5 I am
> unable to add any vector map via GUI at all.

Jan,

Are you saying add vector layer works correctly on 6.4 but not 6.5? Or that it is broken for you in both versions?
Are you working with Windows? If so, which version? You are compiling yourself? Have you tried the precompiled binaries to see if they work correctly or not?

Thanks
Michael

> 
>> Then he clicks to the command console but it is blank. Again,
>> I'm not sure what I am supposed to be seeing or not seeing.
> 
> When I met the problem with vector maps for the first time, there was an
> error message in the console tab. Now the output is empty so I 'reported' it
> as possible regression of the most recent version.
> 
> Thanks for your patience.