[GRASS-dev] Modules

[Michael Barton]

I must have looked at that 3 times last night and saw commas instead of
semi-colons every time. Late night dislexia.

Michael


On 2/23/07 1:15 AM, "Glynn Clements" <glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:

> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> Your fix has made it possible (well potentially) to reinstitute automatic
>> background creation from active maps in the GIS Manager layer tree. But I've
>> hit a wall on how to parse multiple background maps. At first I thought it
>> was TclTk. Then I realized that it wasn't possible from the command line
>> either. For example...
>> 
>> GRASS 6.3.0-CVS-07020901 (spearfish60_test):~ > v.digit map=deleteme
>> bgcmd="d.vect map=deleteme,d.rast map=aspect"
>> PNG: GRASS_TRUECOLOR status: TRUE
>> PNG: collecting to file:
>> /Users/Shared/grassdata/spearfish60_test/PERMANENT/.tmp/cmb-MBP/6132.0.ppm,
>> GRASS_WIDTH=640, GRASS_HEIGHT=471
>> Illegal filename. Character <,> not allowed.
>> ERROR: Vector file [deleteme,d.rast,aspect] not available
>> 
>> It won't parse the comma. I've tried various versions of single and double
>> quotes around different parts of the expression.
>> 
>> Could it be that v.digit is not parsing this command correctly? Is this
>> fixable or should I give up.
> 
> "v.digit --help" says:
> 
>   bgcmd   Display commands to be used for canvas backdrop (separated by ';')
>                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Semicolons, not commas.
> 
> Presumably, the rationale was that individual commands might contain
> commas (well, they *might* contain semicolons, but that's less
> likely).
> 
> Note: I did actually test bgcmd= with multiple commands, specifically:
> 
> v.digit fields bgcmd='d.rast fields;d.vect roads'

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School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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