Thanks for the suggestions. Michael
On 5/15/08 5:08 PM, "Glynn Clements" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael Barton wrote: > >>> #127: WinGRASS Tcl/Tk GUI - Text formatting error in Output window >>> -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- >>> Reporter: 4everskiff | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org >>> Type: defect | Status: new >>> Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0 >>> Component: Tcl | Version: 6.3.0 >>> Resolution: | Keywords: Text output, winGRASS >>> -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- >>> Changes (by marcopx): >>> >>> * version: 6.3.0 RCs => 6.3.0 >>> >>> Comment: >>> >>> Replying to [comment:5 cmbarton]: >>>> I've committed a change to gronsole.tcl that I hope fixes this. It is >>> not a problem on the Mac, and maybe only on Windows. I moved the linefeed >>> for command output text from after the text line to before the text line. >>> I'm assuming that Windows will read "\n" as a line feed. Could someone >>> please test in Windows. I'm not changing this ticket to resolved yet to >>> see if it actually works. >>>> >>>> Michael >>> >>> Very good. >>> It seems that I definetly need to build upon the SVN trunk. It will take 3 >>> hours or more here :-( >>> BTW, the windows (working) code for the Carriage Return & Linefeed is >>> \r\n, but probably the \n suffices >> >> This may be the underlying cause of the error in gronsole.tcl. I don't know >> how /r is read in *nix. I'm also not sure if I can get away with replacing >> "/n" with a variable so that I can make it vary by platform. E.g., >> >> If {$mingw == 1} {set rlf {/r/n}} else {set rlf {/n}} > > First, the escape character is a backslash, not a (forward) slash. > > Tcl/Tk behaves like C, in that \n is used as the line separator > internally. \r characters should be added/removed upon output/input. > In particular, if you want to add a line break within a multi-line > text widget, you just add a \n character regardless of platform. > > To handle EOL conversions for I/O, use "fconfigure ... -translation ...". __________________________________________ Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology Director of Graduate Studies School of Human Evolution & Social Change Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity Arizona State University phone: 480-965-6213 fax: 480-965-7671 www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev