On Jan 16, 2008, at 1:30 PM, grass-user-request@lists.osgeo.org wrote:
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:17:17 -0600
From: "Gerald Nelson" <gnelson@uiuc.edu>
Subject: [GRASS-user] problems starting wxPython gui using wingrass
To: "'grass list'" <grassuser@grass.itc.it>
Message-ID: <00df01c85874$68fa1690$3e40ae80@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 saysGo 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The old readme is out of date with the move to the new SVN.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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