Perhaps a stupid question on my part. Did you download the Snow
Bundling is something you do when you compile it. Compiling is not
hard but you shouldn't need to do it. You can download versions that
should work on your system from my site too. It's not official but I
C. Michael Barton
> Thanks Michael,
>
>>> Dear Grass,
>>>
>>> I am having a problem when I try to change the legend for my raster
>>> file using to GUI. This happens even if I select a new legend to
>>> add.
>>> As soon as I select the raster map from the list Grass freezes for
>>> several minutes.
>>>
>>> Perhaps it is a problem with the raster file or the rules file,
>>> however it runs fine when I run the command in the terminal. I would
>>> like to do this in the GUI since I am not sure how to do all of my
>>> map
>>> resizing and saving as .tif from the command line.
>>>
>>> Can someone please advise me on this?
>>>
>>> I am using Grass 6.4 with standard GUI (not Python)
>>> System is Mac OS 10.6.1
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for your time,
>>>
>>> Michael
>>
>>
>> I see that you are using Snow Leopard, which has Python 2.5.1 and
>> 2.6 on
>> it. It can also have a couple different wxpython versions. William
>> Kyngesburye has worked out special instructions for compiling on Snow
>> Leopard.
>
> I installed GRASS on my new computer from this page a week or so ago.
>
http://www.kyngchaos.com/software:grass/>
>>
>> If you are not using a recently compiled binary (after mid-
>> September), you
>> will have problems.
>>
>> My guess is that this is related to ticket:
>>
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/753. This is caused when you
>> compile
>> GRASS with more than one version of python on your Mac. In these
>> circumstances, there is an error in a display widget (PseudoDC).
>> The whole
>> issue is complicated but I can explain more if you are interested
>> in the
>> intricacies of the code.
>
> As far as I can tell this seems to be a similar problem.
>
>>
>> The fixes are to either
>> 1) find the second version of Python and any vestiges of a second
>> wxpython
>> and delete them (sometimes harder than it seems, and especially
>> complicated
>> with Snow Leopard with needs 2 official Python versions), make
>> distclean,
>> and recompile. Or
>
> Indeed! I have no idea how to find these files and I fear that I will
> really mess something up here.
>
>> 2) bundle wxpython with GRASS.
>
> Unfortunately I don't know how to do this. On the page I listed above
> it says that wxpython is included in the GRASS install. I didn't think
> that I was using the Python GUI but perhaps I am misunderstanding
> something here.
> When I open GRASS I hit return to load the GUI I don't run "g.gui
> wxpython".
> Is there an idiots guide to on how to bundle wxpython?
>
>> The second option guarantees that you are running with the version of
>> wxpython that you compiled with and that all parts of GRASS are
>> using the
>> same wxpython. I'm recommending bundling wxpython with all Mac
>> binaries to
>> avoid this and other problems.
>
> Thanks for this,
> Michael
>
>
>
>
> --
> Michael Denslow
>
> Graduate Student
> I.W. Carpenter Jr. Herbarium [BOON]
> Department of Biology
> Appalachian State University
> Boone, North Carolina U.S.A.
>
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>
> Communications Manager
> Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections
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