<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>i'm using 6.3-cvs on osx </DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>i compile it every 2-3 day on osx</DIV><DIV>i found a problem running d.nviz from the gis.m button (fly trhough path for NVIZ)</DIV><DIV>when press the related button i've this log :</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>can't read "xmonlist": no such variable</DIV><DIV>can't read "xmonlist": no such variable</DIV><DIV> while executing</DIV><DIV>"lindex $xmonlist 0"</DIV><DIV> (procedure "guarantee_xmon" line 16)</DIV><DIV> invoked from within</DIV><DIV>"guarantee_xmon"</DIV><DIV> (procedure "Gm::fly" line 3)</DIV><DIV> invoked from within</DIV><DIV>"Gm::fly"</DIV><DIV> ("uplevel" body line 1)</DIV><DIV> invoked from within</DIV><DIV>"uplevel \#0 $cmd"</DIV><DIV> (procedure "Button::_release" line 18)</DIV><DIV> invoked from within</DIV><DIV>"Button::_release .mainframe.topf.tb1.bbox4.b1"</DIV><DIV> (command bound to event)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>runnig d.nviz directly from command line everyting works fine.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>to check if it is related to my ststem configuration </DIV><DIV>i've compiled grass 6.2 using the same dependancie that i use for 6.3 release</DIV><DIV>and i've that in grass-6.2</DIV><DIV>d.nviz works fine using the gis.m button</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>nice to see that a7.0 is coming :-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>really thanks to all developpers!!!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Massimo Di Stefano</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>Il giorno 11/ago/07, alle ore 23:05, Helena Mitasova ha scritto:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">On Aug 11, 2007, at 4:14 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Hi,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I think that it is time to get out a GRASS 6.3.0 release</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(as sort of technology preview). It would be great to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">have it ready for FOSS4G2007, say, September.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">IMHO, GRASS 6.3-CVS is in a good shape. Thoughts?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Before the release, can somebody please double check that the following works</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(most of this I believe was already discussed and should be fixed):</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">- nviz: you can add additional surfaces using the Raster surfaces panel without crashing nviz</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>(please try different resolutions, spatial extent, mapsets)</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">- nviz: mask the displayed surface using a selected raster map from within nviz (in my version the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">mask only masked the displayed vector data)</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">- nviz: save state - you can save the state and then load it and you can start working where you</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>stoped when you saved your state</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">- nviz: when saving the image, that the actual displayed image is saved rather than redrawn image</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(for example if you have loaded 4 surfaces and you display only one of them the automatic redraw</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>during the saving procedure would display all four)</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">- nviz: file sequencing tool saves the entire path rather than just the name of raster maps which</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>nviz then cannot interpret when you try to play the script</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I hope that most of this has been already fixed but generally I have a 4 months old nviz on Mac</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">having more capabilities fully functional than my few weeks old version on RedHat Linux,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">so it would be good to test before releasing.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Otherwise GRASS63 is probably in better shape and more systematically tested than any</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">previous release as both Markus and I ran almost all GRASS commands (not with all options though)</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">and although there has been some level of frustration, most things work very well.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">If you ask me what was the most annoying (but not critica) thing that I have found when using</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">GRASS under a deadline - then it was the large default size of the centroid symbol in d.vect.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I had to go through large number of vector data when preparing the new data set</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">and each time I forgot to set the size smaller I got the unreadable mess of overlapping crosses.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">So if we could change the default to something smaller - perhaps size 2 rather than 5,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">that would be great, because most of the time you really want to see your polygons</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">not the centroids and they are quite visible at size 2 even with my old eyes</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(maybe make the default red as the default fill is grey). This was already</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">discussed some time ago too.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Helena</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Markus</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>