[GRASS5] updates to gism2

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I posted to my web site and Markus helped me commit to the cvs a set of updates to the GIS Manager 2 GUI that addresses some of the issues that popped up over the last couple days.

I noticed that I cannot produce text overlays on my Mac using d.text or d.text.freetype. I’d like to know if this is the same under other OS’s also. d.label does work, however.

d.text.freetype has not worked on the Mac since the upgrade to OSX10.4, but d.text did work. So I need to know if this is a Mac issue or everyone has the same lack of text under the new TclTk canvas displays. If the latter, I can add a TclTk text module that will do essentially the same thing as d.text.freetype and should work on all systems.

Michael

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d.text.freetype works for me. GRASS 6.1 CVS 2005/12/10 snapshot + this new gism2, Mac OS X 10.4.4, all my own builds (ie my Graphics Libs and GIS Libs and GRASS) - I don't use Lorenzo's binaries. And I build for 10.4 separately from 10.3 (that is, GCC 4 Tiger/GCC 3.3 Panther).

But I didn't rebuild GRASS to use TclTk Aqua, it's still using a Unix TclTk build. Maybe that would make a difference?

This is my first look at gism2, I've been meaning to look at it. Cool. One thing that would be nice, maybe it's been discussed - draw layers in the canvas one at a time. Especially on a large map with many layers, it would be good to see map drawing progress, and not just a progress bar. It might be done with a transparent PNG for each new layer, combined with the previous composite? That would open the possibility of interrupting the redraw as well (also nice for a large/complex map).

On Feb 1, 2006, at 6:55 PM, Michael Barton wrote:

I posted to my web site and Markus helped me commit to the cvs a set of updates to the GIS Manager 2 GUI that addresses some of the issues that popped up over the last couple days.

I noticed that I cannot produce text overlays on my Mac using d.text or d.text.freetype. I’d like to know if this is the same under other OS’s also. d.label does work, however.

d.text.freetype has not worked on the Mac since the upgrade to OSX10.4, but d.text did work. So I need to know if this is a Mac issue or everyone has the same lack of text under the new TclTk canvas displays. If the latter, I can add a TclTk text module that will do essentially the same thing as d.text.freetype and should work on all systems.

Michael

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