[GRASSLIST:10462] Re: gis.m run failure

[Michael Barton]

I've been working with 8.4.x for quite awhile with no problems on the Mac
platform.

Is there any reason now to stay with 8.3? (nviz? Other?)

The current version of TclTk is 8.4.12, with 8.5 nearing release.

Michael
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> From: Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org>
> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:39:56 -0700
> To: <grasslist at baylor.edu>
> Subject: [GRASSLIST:10454] Re: gis.m run failure
> 
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 06:25:45PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
>> I have been a command-line bigot forever, and rarely use the d.m or gis.m
>> features of GRASS --- I once tried gis.m and liked what I saw, but don't
>> use it routinely, and indeed haven't tried it in a few weeks.  As for
>> d.m, my first command on starting GRASS is typically "File->Exit" in d.m.
>> 
>> After all this talk of revamping GRASS so that the X displays can go away, I
>> decided to try out gis.m again lest I fall so far behind the times that
>> GRASS becomes unusable for me overnight.  Using grass-6.1 cvs updated last
>> night, I get:
>> 
>>> gis.m
>> Error in startup script: bad event type or keysym "ConfigureRequest"
>>     while executing
>> "bind .mapcan($mon) <ConfigureRequest> {
> [...]
>> 
>> Any hints on where to look for what's wrong here?  Could this be a tcl/tk
>> versioning issue?  (I'm using tcl/tk 8.3, although I do have tcl 8.4
>> installed 
>> --- just not set up so that configure finds it, coz once upon a time 8.4 was
>> unusable with grass.)
> 
> Google to the rescue.  Yes, ConfigureRequest is something that is only present
> in tcl 8.4.  
> 
> If this incompatibility with tcl/tk 8.3 is necessary for proper function of
> gis.m, the various install documents should ultimately be updated, and
> perhaps configure should not accept tcl/tk 8.3 anymore.
> 
> Re-adjusting my tcl/tk 8.3 vs. 8.4 install and letting grass use 8.4 fixed
> gis.m.  
> 
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