The start command does actually work to put gis.m in the background. I changed init.bat to read:
=== rem if return ok, gis.m start: if %errorlevel% == 2 goto exitinit if not "%GRASS_WISH%"=="" ( start "GIS Manager" "%GRASS_WISH%" "%WINGISBASE%\etc\gm\gm.tcl" winterm.bat ) else ( start "GIS Manager" "%WINGISBASE%\etc\gm\gm.tcl" winterm.bat ) === And that works fine for me. "winterm.bat" is in GRASS/bin and has these contents: === rem starts a new WinGRASS terminal window FOR /F "usebackq delims==" %%i IN (`g.gisenv "get=LOCATION_NAME"`) DO @set LOCATION_NAME=%%i prompt $C%LOCATION_NAME%$F:$P $G cd "%HOMEPATH%" cmd.exe /C start "GRASS %GRASS_VERSION% Shell" cmd.exe /E:ON /F:ON /V:ON exit /B === FWIW, I also re-designed grass63.bat to make it easier to understand and work. If you keep it in the dir above your GRASS installation, it should be completely relocatable, w/o having to set any vars: === @echo off rem ######################################################################### rem # rem # GRASS Initialization rem # rem ######################################################################### rem ** set the name of the GRASS install dir relative to where this batch file is ** set WINGRASS_REL=grass-6.3.cvs rem ************************************************************************* rem ** ONLY CHANGE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING ** rem ************************************************************************* rem ** this will point to the absolute location of the GRASS dir ** set WINGRASS_ABS=%CD%\%WINGRASS_REL% rem Directory where your .grassrc6 file will be stored set HOME=%USERPROFILE% rem Name of the wish (Tk) executable set GRASS_WISH=wish.exe rem Path to the shell command. This assumes that sh.exe is in the subfolder "bin", rem relative to where this batch file was started from. set GRASS_SH=%CD%\bin\sh.exe rem Path to your web browser (Internet Explorer by default) set GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=%SYSTEMDRIVE%\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EX rem Path to the proj files (notably the epsg projection list) set GRASS_PROJSHARE=%CD%\share\proj rem ** add additional paths for executables as needed ** set PATH=%PATH%;%CD%\bin;%CD%\lib;%WINGRASS_ABS%\bin;%WINGRASS_ABS%\lib;%WINGRASS_ABS%\scripts rem ** check if R is in the same dir and if so: expand the path ** if exist %CD%\R\bin\R.exe PATH=%PATH%;%CD%\R\bin rem ** start main GRASS init script ** set WINGISBASE=%WINGRASS_ABS% "%WINGISBASE%\etc\init.bat" %* === I have done some testing with all this and it seems to work fine for me, so far. Cheers, Benjamin Moritz Lennert wrote: > On 31/10/07 10:48, Hamish wrote: >> Benjamin Ducke wrote: >>> The few remaining things on my list include: >>> >>> - r.los crashes on Win32 >> >> can you re-try with the latest code from CVS? I fixed a few things a >> few days ago. Perhaps a longshot but there was an issue of a CELL map >> being read into a FCELL array. >> >> >>> - I also find it annoying that gis.m starts up in the foreground >>> and blocks command line input until you quit it. >> >> >> grass63.bat has not been given a "-text" command line option? > > Yes it has (actually it is init.bat which has it), so if you only want > text then that is no problem. But when you launch grass with -gui you > cannot access the command line. And when you launch it with -text, just > typing gis.m to get the gui does not work. Two issues that we need to > look into. > > AFAIK the ampersand '&' does not work to put a process in the background > in cmd.exe. There is a 'start' command but I don't know if that will do > the trick (am not in front of a windows machine right now...). > > Moritz > > -- Benjamin Ducke, M.A. Archäoinformatik (Archaeoinformation Science) Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (Inst. of Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology) Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6 D 24098 Kiel Germany Tel.: ++49 (0)431 880-3378 / -3379 Fax : ++49 (0)431 880-7300 www.uni-kiel.de/ufg _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
