[GRASS-user] problems starting wxPython gui using wingrass

[Michael Barton]

As Martin explained better than I, there is old code in the release  
branch. But if you update from the SVN trunk, you don't need to copy  
the wxPython GUI code anywhere. It is already where it is supposed to  
go.

I just looked at the WinGRASS binary code and see the problem. For  
some reason, it is not in this binary. It is in the Mac binaries,  
which is why this has seemed so odd to me.

If you want to put it in manually, the gui code goes into $GISBASE/etc/ 
wx (you'll have to make the directory). You need to also get the  
wxgrass bash script and put it into $GISBASE/scripts.

Michael
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On Jan 16, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Gerald Nelson wrote:

> Michael, I just downloaded the binary for wingrass. No compilation  
> attempts
> in windows yet.
>
> In the meantime I downloaded the latest source from svn (using  
> tortoiseSVN),
> copied the wxpython folder to the gui folder, copied the wxgrass  
> file to the
> scripts folder. I want to use msys so I can run scripts so I launch  
> msys, cd
> to the bin directory of grass63 and type grass63 -wx. No good. Then  
> I type
> wxgrass. Still no good. But I think the main problem is that the grass
> scripts can't find python. The $PATH variable in msys is
> /c/grass63RC4/grass-6.3.0RC4/lib:/c/grass63RC4/grass-6.3.0RC4/bin:/c/ 
> grass63
> RC4/grass-6.3.0RC4/scripts:.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/c/ 
> Program: No
> such file or directory
>
> Which is a bit bizarre, but in particular contains no reference to  
> python in
> it.
>
> The following is what happens when I do
> $ grass63 -wx
> Cleaning up temporary files.....
> Starting GRASS ...
> /c/grass63RC4/grass-6.3.0RC4/etc/Init.sh: python: command not found
> ERROR: Invalid return code from gis_set.tcl.
> Please advise GRASS developers of this error.
>
> I haven't yet figured out how msys gets its path value.
>
> Jerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grass-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:grass-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Michael  
> Barton
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:42 PM
> To: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] problems starting wxPython gui using  
> wingrass
>
>
>
> 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>
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>> 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
>
>
>
> ______________________________
> Michael Barton, Professor
> Professor of Anthropology
> Director of Graduate Studies
> School of Human Diversity & Social Change
> Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
> Arizona State University
> Tempe, AZ  85287-2402
> USA
>
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