GRASSLAND FAQ

Liane Levesque
Marketing Director
                                             tel. : (514) 858-1104
LAS Inc. fax : (514) 389-9373
1570 Chabanel Ouest email: ll@las.com
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
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1. What are the main differences between GRASS4.1 and GRASSLAND 1.0 ?

  GRASSLAND 1.0 is an implementation of GRASS4.1 inside an easy to use Graphi

cal

  User Interface. It runs under Microsoft Windows/95 and Windows/NT and will
  very soon run a few flavor of UNIX. Beside the basic GRASS4.1 spatial analy

sis

  functions, GRASSLAND 1.0 is equipped with some new and very useful features

:

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5. Can I include my own GRASS functions into GRASSLAND 1.0 ?

  The openess of GRASS4.1 is certainly one of its most important feature.

  LAS' development team has worked very hard to keep all GRASS libraries iden

tical

  to the orginal UNIX version. We have created a series of .DLL libraries tha

t

  mimic all aspect of the most important GRASS4.1 libraries: libgis.a, libvec

t.a and

  libdig.a. Other libraries have been implemented as statically link librarie

s except

  libvask.a which we couldn't port at all. We also made a GISGEN and a GMAKE4

.1 script

  to facilitate compilation.

  This development environment has allowed us to port without difficulty all

functions

  described above. Therefore, it should be suitable for any other functions.

  It is also possible to easily create a GUI clip for each function and to in

tegrate

  the result into GRASSLAND 1.0.

  LAS is currently putting together a development package ( with documentatio

n ) with all

  these tools included. This package will be made available at no cost for de

velopers

  willing to contribute back their work to the users community. The developm

ent package

  will run on top of Microsoft Visual C++ and will ( unless someone supplies

a good

  replacement) also require the MKS toolkit for NT/95.

OK , I had the answer, in this preceeding Mail ...

So, what about this development package ?
Is it already available?

Merci à nouveau et a bientot

JM Roques