[GRASS-user] problems starting wxPython gui using wingrass

[Nikos Alexandris]

So, I updated recently through svn the source and now I got GRASS
6.3.0RC4 running.

Why isn't wxgrass there by default?

Cheers,

Nikos.

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 13:42 -0700, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
> On Jan 16, 2008, at 1:30 PM, grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:17:17 -0600
> > From: "Gerald Nelson" <gnelson at uiuc.edu>
> > Subject: [GRASS-user] problems starting wxPython gui using wingrass
> > To: "'grass list'" <grassuser at grass.itc.it>
> > Message-ID: <00df01c85874$68fa1690$3e40ae80 at ace.uiuc.edu>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >
> > I thought I'd try the wxPython gui with wingrass. I downloaded
> > wingrass63RC4.zip and installed it. Also python 2.4 and
> > wxPython2.8-win32-unicode-2.8.7.1-py24.exe.
> >
> >
> >
> > The README file at
> > http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk/gui/wxpython/README says
> >
> >
> >
> > Go to directory:
> >
> > $ cd gui/wxpython
> >
> >
> >
> > I assume that means c:/grass63RC4/grass-6.3.0RC4/etc/gui. But there  
> > is no
> > wxpython folder there, just folders for icons and scripts. Either I'm
> > looking in the wrong gui directory or the wxpython directory doesn't  
> > come
> > with wingrass, or I'm doing something else wrong.
> 
> Jerry,
> 
> The old readme is out of date with the move to the new SVN.
> 
> the wxPython GUI is installed by default in GRASS 6.3 when you compile  
> (unless you got a version for the few days prior to yesterday).
> 
> Once you have Python (I'd recommend going with the current 2.5 rather  
> than the legacy 2.4 version) and wxPython installed, all you *should*  
> have to do is type wxgrass from the command line to launch the new GUI  
> in Linux and  Mac.
> 
>  From Windows, there is no command line, so you'll need to change  
> your .grassrc6 file a bit. Change the line that says...
> 
> GRASS_GUI: tcltk
> 
> ...to read
> 
> GRASS_GUI: wx
> 
> ...and save the file.
> 
> By default, the .grassrc6 file is in your Windows home directory (I  
> think that's the directory where My Documents is found).
> Please let us know how it works for you.
> 
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
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