[GRASS-dev] Re: g.proj and datum information (and gis.m)

[Michael Barton]

Yes. That is the way it will work much better with Windows--when you can
just type a command with all the arguments and have it do its thing. The
same kind of thing, with a bit more sophistication, is going into the
wxPython GUI.

Where the problem lies, is with modules that assume you have an xterm, send
messages to the xterm, then wait for your reply before proceeding. These are
what won't work with TclTk (at least not without some kind of special
massaging).

Michael
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Arizona State University

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> From: Paul Kelly <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk>
> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:41:14 +0000 (GMT)
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: Grass Developers List <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: g.proj and datum information (and gis.m)
> 
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>>> From: Paul Kelly <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk>
>>> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:03:18 +0100 (BST)
>>> 
>>> I haven't used gis.m, but why can the output window not accept user input?
>>> I think it would be cool if GRASS could work a bit like AutoCAD and Matlab
>>> which, while mostly GUI-oriented, still have a command line available. IIRC
>>> the way Radim integrated GRASS with QGIS on Windows with the GRASS shell
>>> inside QGIS worked something like this?
>> 
>> You simply can't have an  interactive xterm from inside a TclTk GUI. The
>> info gets returned to stderr, which TclTk treats as an error, or to stdout,
>> which TclTk treats (correctly) as information output from the command. There
>> is no way to communicate back from a simply text output window because it is
>> not an interactive xterm.
> 
> I wasn't talking specifically about interactivity, just being able to run
> a command by manually typing it in. And I've just seen that you CAN do
> this! In the gis.m output window, you can type in any GRASS command you
> want and click run and you see any output in the Window above. That's
> exactly what I was looking for - I think it's really cool that GRASS has
> this. :)
> 
> Paul