On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 08:53 -0700, Michael Barton wrote: > > > On Dec 18, 2009, at 3:45 AM, grass-user-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:21:18 +0100 > > From: ????? ?????????? <nikos.alexand...@felis.uni-freiburg.de> > > Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] grass70 and display monitor > > To: Glynn Clements <gl...@gclements.plus.com> > > Cc: GRASS user list <grass-user@lists.osgeo.org> > > Message-ID: <1261088478.7528.2.ca...@vertical> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > > On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 18:59 +0000, Glynn Clements wrote: > >> Vincent Bain wrote: > >> > >>> May I be considered bothersome, but was it really impossible to achieve > >>> (like in grass65) the development of a wxGUI (which I really enjoy too) > >>> while keeping the complete set of "historical" command line > >>> environment ? > >> > >> Very little is actually impossible, but the disadvantages (in terms of > >> both effort and detriment to the end product) far outweigh the > >> advantages. > > > > I loved the "d.mon & co" tools ;-). But I understand that they had to be > > dropped. Is there already something in the wiki (with respect to grass70 > > and interactive d.* tools)? > > > > Thanks, Nikos > > Nikos, > > Rather than trying to have primitive interaction built in to different > display modules, they all now work as true command line tools where you type > a command with arguments and get a result. All d.* modules that worked as > command line tools before (e.g., d.rast, d.vect) still work that way. See > further explanations at > <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2009-December/053520.html> > > For d.* modules that had some kind of primitive GUI built into the module, > they have either been switched to true command-line tools or are dropped from > GRASS 7 until they are rewritten to that standard. > > Instead of trying to build interaction into each module, they all can now > work with an independent GUI layer on top of the modules. This is what it is > for. The current GUI will do all of the interaction of prior d.* modules with > built-in GUI with the exception of a few modules (notably r.digit [super > primitive and not really needed with vdigit and v.to.rast], i.class, and > i.ortho.photo) and more. > > So you can do what you did before in a nicer environment.
Michael, I did read (almost all of) your posts WRT to grass70 and d.*zzz. However, I want to say that, honestly, I appreciate the time you invest for clarifications (again). It's one of those things that gives the community a meaning and personally it makes me feel being a part of it. Thank You, Nikos _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
