[GRASS5] Driver Update

[Glynn Clements]

Markus Neteler wrote:

> > NB: The case where the client quits while waiting for a mouse click
> > shouldn't have changed at all; the Get_location_with_* functions all
> > have their own event loop, which doesn't return until a button is
> > pressed. This isn't straightforward to change (it can be done, but
> > it's potentially de-stabilising).
> 
> O.k. Once I was proposing a timeout for waiting for the right mouse button,
> but the majority here disagreed. The only problem is that newbies (and non
> english speakers) regularly ignore the mouse button description displayed
> in xterm. Later they wonder why the monitor doesn't work any more...
> However, I have no good solution for this. In other GUI-GIS you have
> a button to be selected, therefore it's rather clear what's ongoing.

The solution would be to re-write the mouse handling code in such a
way that it aborts if the connection is closed. However, I think that
this change might be too destabilizing this close to release.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>

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