[GRASS-dev] splash screen image comes up too late [Re: Planning GRASS GIS 7.0.0RC2]

[Moritz Lennert]

On 07/02/15 09:44, Martin Landa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2015-02-06 17:32 GMT+01:00 Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>:
>> When I look at the example splashscreen code at [1], I see that the splash
>> screen is defined as a separate class that is called from the wxApp's OnInit
>> function and then calls the main GUI from its OnExit function. Using the
>> example code here with the 400K version of the splash screen works
>> perfectly.
>>
>> I'm not familiar enough with wxPython and the wxGUI to adapt this quickly,
>> but maybe this could inspire some of the wx gurus...
>
> I modified wxgui.py in trunk (r64489) accordingly. Testing highly welcome.
>

The splash screen now looks good, but I get:

   File 
"/data/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass_trunk/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gui/wxpython/wxgui.py", 
line 87, in OnExit
     workspace = self.workspaceFile)
   File 
"/data/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass_trunk/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gui/wxpython/lmgr/frame.py", 
line 122, in __init__
     self._moduleTreeBuilder = LayerManagerModuleTree()
   File 
"/data/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass_trunk/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gui/wxpython/lmgr/menudata.py", 
line 66, in __init__
     MenuTreeModelBuilder.__init__(self, fallback)
   File 
"/data/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass_trunk/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gui/wxpython/core/menutree.py", 
line 66, in __init__
     expAddons(xmlTree)
   File 
"/data/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass_trunk/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gui/wxpython/core/toolboxes.py", 
line 274, in expandAddons
     _expandRuntimeModules(root)
   File 
"/data/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass_trunk/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gui/wxpython/core/toolboxes.py", 
line 515, in _expandRuntimeModules
     desc, keywords = _loadMetadata(name)
   File 
"/data/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass_trunk/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gui/wxpython/core/toolboxes.py", 
line 541, in _loadMetadata
     task = gtask.parse_interface(module)
   File 
"/data/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass_trunk/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/etc/python/grass/script/task.py", 
line 509, in parse_interface
     tree = etree.fromstring(get_interface_description(name))
   File 
"/data/home/mlennert/SRC/GRASS/grass_trunk/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/etc/python/grass/script/task.py", 
line 493, in get_interface_description
     "\n\nDetails: %(det)s") % {'cmd': cmd, 'det': e}
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 32: 
ordinal not in range(128)

And the GUI does not appear.
Don't know if this is related to your fix.

Moritz