[GRASS-user] Display thematic vector map - WinGRASS 6.3 (Vista)

[Michael Barton]

I'm pretty sure that this is a Vista issue, though one that has been  
solved in 6.4.

Michael

On Jan 14, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Matt wrote:

> Ken,
> You are not alone.  I tried the thematic vector example on page 171 of
> Neteler & Mitasova and also encountered the "You must open a display
> monitor" message.  I'm running 6.3.0-4 on Vista.
> Matt
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Moritz Lennert
> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>> On 06/01/09 17:51, Michael Barton wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the correction. WinGRASS supports PNG output, not a  
>>> monitor.
>>> d.vect.thematic was rewritten to use direct rendering through PNG,  
>>> so it
>>> should work on Windows.
>>
>> This was done in 6.4, so it is not available in winGRASS, yet,  
>> which is
>> based on 6.3. Just replacing the script doesn't work, either as it  
>> use the
>> fs= parameter of v.db.connect which wasn't introduced until 6.4.
>>
>> So, another strident call for the a 6.4 winGRASS.
>>
>> Moritz
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