[GRASSLIST:10058] GIS Manager 2 release candidate 1

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I just committed to the cvs and uploaded to my web site <http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/files/grass_gismgr/gism_rc1_20060130.tgz > a new version of the GRASS GIS Manager. Hopefully, with sufficient testing and any needed bug fixes, we can move toward making this the current default GUI for GRASS 6.

This builds on the prototype I released last week, fixing all reported (and some unreported) bugs and adding some of the new user-related features I previously mentioned. A few notable items are:

-printing to postscript devices (along with pdf and eps file output) is now supported with ghostscript—though I am hoping someone with more ghostscript expertise can test and tweak this as needed.

-Each map display window now sports a progress bar that indicates the map drawing process.

-Separate layer trees can be saved as resource files (*.dmrc) for each map display created.

-x11 windows automatically launch for modules that require them.

-Several bugs with switching among displays, resizing, and querying have been fixed.

-There have been quite a few other changes ‘under the hood’ to increase stability and improve functionality.

In order to do vector querying, you’ll need the new v.what module created by Trevor Wiens. This should be uploaded to the CVS soon, but is currently available in the package on my web site as source code and a Mac OSX binary.

I’ve tested this on Mac OSX WITHOUT X11 and it works fine. Obviously, you can’t run the several modules that still require x11 in this mode (most importantly, digitizing, georeferencing GCP placement, and NVIZ). But this should run with the new Windows native version of GRASS, assuming a Windows native version of TclTk is installed. The command console that is included in the GIS Manager main window means that you can send commands to GRASS without an active terminal…I think. I assume that the init.sh file would need to be tweaked a bit, but it should work. I’d be interested in hearing from anyone who tries it—and especially from anyone who succeeds. :wink:

I’d also be happy to have other people begin to work on maintaining and updating this GUI for GRASS. Areas with highest priority include:

A module to configure the GUI—e.g., fonts, query style, layer order.
Better printing
Updated c-modules that do not require x11—especially for digitizing, georeferencing, and NVIZ
optimizing the PNG driver (I’m not sure exactly what could be done here, but maybe worth looking into)

My thanks again to Radim Blazek, who developed the display manager for GRASS 5 and 6 which formed the conceptual and some of the code basis for this GUI; Glynn Clements who has helped with TclTk questions, Trevor Wiens and Lorenzo Moretti who have helped me get working versions of v.what; and Crischan Wygoda and Martin Wegmann who also have been important contributors to the GUI redesign project.

My hope is that this will provide inspiration for more sophisticated UI for a great spatial technology.

Michael

Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
USA

voice: 480-965-6262; fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

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Michael (et al.),

Thank you VERY much for the new GIS Manager from a still-fledgling but learning GRASS user. I am using it with MacOSX(.4), Lorenzo’s most recent GRASS libraries and cvs, and your GIS Manager update of yesterday. I have one very minor fix and one unsolved problem to report in my usage:

Minor fix:
In your new gm folder (to go in $GISBASE/etc), the file “rastarrow.gif” should be renamed to “rastarrows.gif” as that is what the script seems to look for (and gis.m& won’t work properly without it).

Unsolved problem:
When I try to open an old .dm group or a .dmrc file newly created and saved with the GIS Manager, I get errors:

When I click on the “open” icon, I get the following:
can’t read “w”: no such variable
can’t read “w”: no such variable
while executing
“set win $w”
(procedure “Gm::OpenFileBox” line 7)
invoked from within
“Gm::OpenFileBox”
(“uplevel” body line 1)
invoked from within
“uplevel #0 $cmd”
(procedure “Button::_release” line 18)
invoked from within
“Button::_release .mainframe.topf.tb1.bbox3.b1”
(command bound to event)

When I go through the menus (File>Groups>Open), I get the following:
wrong # args: should be “Gm::OpenFileBox”
wrong # args: should be “Gm::OpenFileBox”
while executing
“Gm::OpenFileBox {}”
invoked from within
“.#menubar.#menubar#file.#menubar#file#menu7 invoke active”
(“uplevel” body line 1)
invoked from within
“uplevel #0 [list $w invoke active]”
(procedure “tk::MenuInvoke” line 47)
invoked from within
“tk::MenuInvoke .#menubar.#menubar#file.#menubar#file#menu7 1”
(command bound to event)

I appear to have saved a resource file correctly, but cannot seem to get back to it.

What I am doing wrong?

Thanks again for the new GUI and, in advance, for your help

Chris

On Jan 30, 2006, at 4:48 PM, Michael Barton wrote:

I just committed to the cvs and uploaded to my web site <http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/files/grass_gismgr/gism_rc1_20060130.tgz > a new version of the GRASS GIS Manager. Hopefully, with sufficient testing and any needed bug fixes, we can move toward making this the current default GUI for GRASS 6.

This builds on the prototype I released last week, fixing all reported (and some unreported) bugs and adding some of the new user-related features I previously mentioned. A few notable items are:

-printing to postscript devices (along with pdf and eps file output) is now supported with ghostscript—though I am hoping someone with more ghostscript expertise can test and tweak this as needed.

-Each map display window now sports a progress bar that indicates the map drawing process.

-Separate layer trees can be saved as resource files (*.dmrc) for each map display created.

-x11 windows automatically launch for modules that require them.

-Several bugs with switching among displays, resizing, and querying have been fixed.

-There have been quite a few other changes ‘under the hood’ to increase stability and improve functionality.

In order to do vector querying, you’ll need the new v.what module created by Trevor Wiens. This should be uploaded to the CVS soon, but is currently available in the package on my web site as source code and a Mac OSX binary.

I’ve tested this on Mac OSX WITHOUT X11 and it works fine. Obviously, you can’t run the several modules that still require x11 in this mode (most importantly, digitizing, georeferencing GCP placement, and NVIZ). But this should run with the new Windows native version of GRASS, assuming a Windows native version of TclTk is installed. The command console that is included in the GIS Manager main window means that you can send commands to GRASS without an active terminal…I think. I assume that the init.sh file would need to be tweaked a bit, but it should work. I’d be interested in hearing from anyone who tries it—and especially from anyone who succeeds. :wink:

I’d also be happy to have other people begin to work on maintaining and updating this GUI for GRASS. Areas with highest priority include:

A module to configure the GUI—e.g., fonts, query style, layer order.
Better printing
Updated c-modules that do not require x11—especially for digitizing, georeferencing, and NVIZ
optimizing the PNG driver (I’m not sure exactly what could be done here, but maybe worth looking into)

My thanks again to Radim Blazek, who developed the display manager for GRASS 5 and 6 which formed the conceptual and some of the code basis for this GUI; Glynn Clements who has helped with TclTk questions, Trevor Wiens and Lorenzo Moretti who have helped me get working versions of v.what; and Crischan Wygoda and Martin Wegmann who also have been important contributors to the GUI redesign project.

My hope is that this will provide inspiration for more sophisticated UI for a great spatial technology.

Michael

Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
USA

voice: 480-965-6262; fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

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