-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 24/05/12 17:57, Benjamin Ducke wrote: > This sounds like a familiar problem. Most file/web browsers let the choose > whether to stay in > the same window or open a new one when browsing to a new location. > > So perhaps there should be an option in the GUI to "allow multiple windows > per module" which > could be set to "false" by default?
This would be a good (and intuitive) suggestion. Cheers, Rainer > > Ben > > On 05/24/2012 05:34 PM, Paulo van Breugel wrote: >> True that having the same dialogue open several times can be annoying. But >> not always, it may >> come in handy if you want to run the same module several times with >> different parameters (run >> at the same time, or prepare one while the other is still running; btw, I >> actually never >> checked how it is handled if you run the same function twice in parallel, >> are they run at the >> same time on different cores?). >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Michael Barton <michael.bar...@asu.edu >> <mailto:michael.bar...@asu.edu>> wrote: >> >> This is one way, but not exactly what I was talking about. In fact, >> sometimes it is very >> useful to keep a dialog box open to rerun the same module repeatedly with >> different >> parameters. >> >> What I meant is that once it is open, GRASS should not open additional >> dialogs for the same >> module but simply reuse the one that is open. That way you never get 5 >> windows for >> v.distance, only 1--even if you leave it open. >> >> Michael >> >> >> >> On May 24, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Moritz Lennert wrote: >> >>> On 24/05/12 12:25, Chemin, Yann (IWMI) wrote: >>>> Maybe we can modify the GUI preferences: >>>> >>>> Default: All dialog boxes close after a run is complete In Preferences: >>>> Tick this box if >>>> you want the dialog boxes to be >> closed >>>> manually (i.e. stay after a run) >>> >>> >>> The tick box already exists, so you are suggesting to make >> closing the dialog the default ? I find it quite useful, especially for >> newbies, to have the >> dialog open and be able to correct wrong input, instead of having to fill >> the whole dialog >> out again... But I can confirm that it takes some teaching to make them >> aware of that feature >> and avoid that they open the same command ten times. ;-) >>> >>> Moritz >> >> _____________________ C. Michael Barton Visiting Scientist, Integrated >> Science Program >> National Center for Atmospheric Research & University Consortium for >> Atmospheric Research >> 303-497-2889 (voice) >> >> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Professor of Anthropology, >> School of Human >> Evolution & Social Change Arizona State University www: >> http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton >> <http://www.public.asu.edu/%7Ecmbarton>, http://csdc.asu.edu >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list >> grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list >> grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+/OAYACgkQoYgNqgF2egoOywCdHAl1MxCI4Fi4Ituw2IDQL5TU 0r4An3TpuTLw2450rv56I9i9U4hh9vL2 =FSsI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev