Re: [Pkg-grass-general] testing debiangis
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 06:05:43PM -0500, Steve Halasz wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 15:22 +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 08:27:40AM -0500, Steve Halasz wrote:
> > > Hi Paolo,
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 12:06 +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> > ...
> > > Or do you already have GISBASE set and it's still giving the error? I
> > > found that for some reason grass6 didn't like my grass57 database. I'm
> > > not sure yet if that is expected behavior, but I had to start fresh in a
> > > new directory.
> >
> > Huh? What's the error?
>
> Ok, false alarm. I can access the database fine.
>
> The problem is that the tcltk dialog doesn't work as expected in some
> cases. Right now when I start up, the dialog shows:
>
> Database: /home/steve/grass57
> Location: saranac
> Mapset: steve
>
> If I click 'Browse' and browse to /home/steve/grass57 and then click
> on /home/steve/grass57/.., thinking that I need to go into the directory
> to select it, then Database = /home/steve
>
> Then I was picking /home/steve/grass57 as a Location and saranac as a
> mapset. And it was saying 'This is not a valid mapset'.
>
> I think that:
> * Database browse dialog should be more clear
> * The Locations list should not show files and directories that are not
> locations
> * The Mapsets list should not show files and directories that are not
> mapsets
Yes, this is a known bug. Solution desired (but I know too little about
tcl/tk). Diffs welcome ...
Markus
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