[GRASS-dev] grass location creation

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 8 17:21:15 EST 2007


Glynn Clements wrote:
> > +        if (flag.savedefault->answer) {
> > +            char *location = G_location_path();
> > +            char *path = (char *) G_malloc(sizeof(location)+64);
> > +            strcpy(path,location);
> > +            strcat(path,"/PERMANENT/");
> > +            G__put_window( &window, path, "DEFAULT_WIND" );
> > +        }
> 
> The second argument to G__put_window has to be an "element", i.e. a
> directory in the current mapset. r.in.gdal uses "../PERMANENT", which
> works because the element is simply concatenated onto the path to the
> mapset directory.
> 
> I suggest that you adopt the same approach, i.e.:
> 
> 	G__put_window( &window, "../PERMANENT", "DEFAULT_WIND" );


as this should only be working if the current mapset is PERMANENT,
could/should that be shortened to "."?

G__put_window( &window, ".", "DEFAULT_WIND" );



Hamish




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