First of all: I think it is better if we keep these discussions on grass-dev to involve others and to keep a history...
cc'ing to Michael for gis.m bug in "About GRASS".
On 29/02/08 16:07, marco.pasetti@alice.it wrote:
Hi,
I'm testing rc5 on windows (with my personal build, but you know that...)
It works! I'm so happy!!!...
Congratulations !!
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some things doesn't work, thought: actually for this I'm not the right person, because I'm not an advanced GRASS user:
I report just few things:
1) GRASS help and GIS manager help (from Help menu) don't work; no error messages, simply do nothing!
These commands call g.manual which is a shell script, so you need to set the GRASS_SH command in grass63.bat.
The question is: do we really need to call g.manual here, or could the command be $GRASS_HTML_BROWSER /path/to/man/page ?
2) About GRASS don't work; it reports as follows:
wrong # args: should be "setfont source"
wrong # args: should be "setfont source"
while executing
"setfont .helptext.frame $help_font"
(procedure "Gm::helptext" line 14)
invoked from within
"Gm::helptext {About GRASS} {-width 75} {-justify left} $text"
(file "C:/msys/local/grass-6.3.0RC5/etc/gm/grassabout.tcl" line 96)
invoked from within
"source C:/msys/local/grass-6.3.0RC5/etc/gm/grassabout.tcl"
(menu invoke)
This is a bug in gis.m, not related to windows.
3) Help (button) in module GUI fails; I try to translate Firefox message from italian:
Firefox can't open this address because the (c) protocol is not associated with any application
Funny, I don't have this problem, even without GRASS_SH being set... Are you sure that the html man pages have been created correctly ? Check $GISBASE/docs/html.
4) I used the spearfish sample database for the tests; since now I always used QGIS... how can I create a new location with GRASS?
On the startup screen you have three possibilities for creating new locations: from a georeferenced file, with the epsg code or by typing in the parameters of your projection.
Great work !
Moritz