[GRASS-dev] Re: nviz won't launch from wx GUI menu in WinGRASS

[Helena Mitasova]

On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Michael Barton wrote:

> I took a look at the way that NVIZ is launched from the wx GUI  
> menu. The menu item calls a script called "nviz" that lives in the  
> $GISDBASE/bin folder.
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> The script launches nviz. The menu item does indeed call the script  
> and the script launches. But the code in the script doesn't  
> correctly launch the NVIZ module in Windows.
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> Here is the code. Perhaps someone can ID what is wrong with it.
>
> if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
>   ##nviz is opened in GUI
>   exec "$GISBASE/etc/nviz2.2/nviz" -f "$GISBASE/etc/nviz2.2/scripts/ 
> nviz2.2_script"
>   exit 0
> fi
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> exec "$GISBASE/etc/nviz2.2/nviz" -f "$GISBASE/etc/nviz2.2/scripts/ 
> nviz2.2_script" ${1+"$@"}
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> The weird thing is that this DOES seem to work if you launch it  
> from the Msys GRASS terminal in Windows.

I can just confirm that nviz reliably works from the MSYS GRASS  
terminal in MSWindows - we have used
it a lot by now, when run from wxGUI it launches it but the TclTk  
interface does not open

Helena

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