[GRASSLIST:10090] Re: GIS Manager 2 release candidate 1

[C. H. Roosevelt]

Michael (et al.),

Thank you VERY much for the new GIS Manager from a still-fledgling  
but learning GRASS user. I am using it with MacOSX(.4), Lorenzo's  
most recent GRASS libraries and cvs, and your GIS Manager update of  
yesterday. I have one very minor fix and one unsolved problem to  
report in my usage:

Minor fix:
In your new gm folder (to go in $GISBASE/etc), the file  
"rastarrow.gif" should be renamed to "rastarrows.gif" as that is what  
the script seems to look for (and gis.m& won't work properly without  
it).

Unsolved problem:
When I try to open an old .dm group or a .dmrc file newly created and  
saved with the GIS Manager, I get errors:

When I click on the "open" icon, I get the following:
can't read "w": no such variable
can't read "w": no such variable
     while executing
"set win $w"
     (procedure "Gm::OpenFileBox" line 7)
     invoked from within
"Gm::OpenFileBox"
     ("uplevel" body line 1)
     invoked from within
"uplevel \#0 $cmd"
     (procedure "Button::_release" line 18)
     invoked from within
"Button::_release .mainframe.topf.tb1.bbox3.b1"
     (command bound to event)

When I go through the menus (File>Groups>Open), I get the following:
wrong # args: should be "Gm::OpenFileBox"
wrong # args: should be "Gm::OpenFileBox"
     while executing
"Gm::OpenFileBox {}"
     invoked from within
".#menubar.#menubar#file.#menubar#file#menu7 invoke active"
     ("uplevel" body line 1)
     invoked from within
"uplevel #0 [list $w invoke active]"
     (procedure "tk::MenuInvoke" line 47)
     invoked from within
"tk::MenuInvoke .#menubar.#menubar#file.#menubar#file#menu7 1"
     (command bound to event)

I appear to have saved a resource file correctly, but cannot seem to  
get back to it.

What I am doing wrong?

Thanks again for the new GUI and, in advance, for your help

Chris


On Jan 30, 2006, at 4:48 PM, Michael Barton wrote:

> I just committed to the cvs and uploaded to my web site <http:// 
> www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/files/grass_gismgr/ 
> gism_rc1_20060130.tgz > a new version of the GRASS GIS Manager.  
> Hopefully, with sufficient testing and any needed bug fixes, we can  
> move toward making this the current default GUI for GRASS 6.
>
> This builds on the prototype I released last week, fixing all  
> reported (and some unreported) bugs and adding some of the new user- 
> related features I previously mentioned. A few notable items are:
>
> -printing to postscript devices (along with pdf and eps file  
> output) is now supported with ghostscript—though I am hoping  
> someone with more ghostscript expertise can test and tweak this as  
> needed.
>
> -Each map display window now sports a progress bar that indicates  
> the map drawing process.
>
> -Separate layer trees can be saved as resource files (*.dmrc) for  
> each map display created.
>
> -x11 windows automatically launch for modules that require them.
>
> -Several bugs with switching among displays, resizing, and querying  
> have been fixed.
>
> -There have been quite a few other changes ‘under the hood’ to  
> increase stability and improve functionality.
>
> In order to do vector querying, you’ll need the new v.what module  
> created by Trevor Wiens. This should be uploaded to the CVS soon,  
> but is currently available in the package on my web site as source  
> code and a Mac OSX binary.
>
> I’ve tested this on Mac OSX WITHOUT  X11 and it works fine.  
> Obviously, you can’t run the several modules that still require x11  
> in this mode (most importantly, digitizing, georeferencing GCP  
> placement, and NVIZ). But this should run with the new Windows  
> native version of GRASS, assuming a Windows native version of TclTk  
> is installed. The command console that is included in the GIS  
> Manager main window means that you can send commands to GRASS  
> without an active terminal...I think. I assume that the init.sh  
> file would need to be tweaked a bit, but it should work. I’d be  
> interested in hearing from anyone who tries it—and especially from  
> anyone who succeeds. ;-)
>
> I’d also be happy to have other people begin to work on maintaining  
> and updating this GUI for GRASS. Areas with highest priority include:
>
> A module to configure the GUI—e.g., fonts, query style, layer order.
> Better printing
> Updated c-modules that do not require x11—especially for  
> digitizing, georeferencing, and NVIZ
> optimizing the PNG driver (I’m not sure exactly what could be done  
> here, but maybe worth looking into)
>
> My thanks again to Radim Blazek, who developed the display manager  
> for GRASS 5 and 6 which formed the conceptual and some of the code  
> basis for this GUI; Glynn Clements who has helped with TclTk  
> questions, Trevor Wiens and Lorenzo Moretti who have helped me get  
> working versions of v.what; and Crischan Wygoda and Martin Wegmann  
> who also have been important contributors to the GUI redesign project.
>
> My hope is that this will provide inspiration for more  
> sophisticated UI for a great spatial technology.
>
> Michael
> ______________________________
> Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
> School of Human Evolution and Social Change
> Arizona State University
> Tempe, AZ  85287-2402
> USA
>
> voice: 480-965-6262; fax: 480-965-7671
> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

C. H. Roosevelt
Department of Archaeology
Boston University
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Boston, MA, 02215-1406
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