[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASSGUI] changing data for parser

[Daniel Calvelo]

Mmmmm... I'd rather fix the XML generator in parser.c and Jan's DTD to
take care of guisection. I'm on it.

Daniel.

On 3/22/07, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>
>  menuform.py uses the xml text generated by "<command>
> —interface-description" to create the autogenerated dialogs. This dates to
> 2001.
>
>  I was just reminded in a recent post to the grass developer list that there
> is a richer interface description output called by "<command> --tcltk". This
> has been developed over the past year or so. I give an example below (part
> of the output from "d.vect —tcltk"). We might want to consider switching the
> autogenerated panels to be created by the —tcltk code.
>
>  Besides being a richer set of descriptions (includes prompt for notebook
> tabs and color picking dialogs), it looks easier to parse than the
> —interface description xml. It would also mean that we would not need sax.
>
>  Michael
>
>  =======  --tcltk style interface description ==========
>
>  GRASS 6.3.cvs (spearfish60_test):~ > d.vect --tcltk
>  begin_dialog {d.vect} {
>   label {}
>   desc {Displays GRASS vector data in the active frame on the graphics
> monitor.}
>   key {display}
>  }
>  add_flag 1 {
>   name {v}
>   desc {Run verbosely}
>   answer 0
>   label {}
>   guisection {}
>  }
>  add_flag 2 {
>   name {a}
>   desc {Get colors from map table column (of form RRR:GGG:BBB)}
>   answer 0
>   label {}
>   guisection {Colors}
>  }
>  add_flag 3 {
>   name {c}
>   desc {Random colors according to category number (or layer number if
> 'layer=-1' is given)}
>   answer 0
>   label {}
>   guisection {Colors}
>  }
>  add_flag 4 {
>   name {i}
>   desc {Use values from 'cats' option as line ID}
>   answer 0
>   label {}
>   guisection {Query}
>  }
>  add_flag 5 {
>   name {x}
>   desc {Don't add to list of vectors and commands in monitor (it won't be
> drawn if the monitor is refreshed)}
>   answer 0
>   label {}
>   guisection {}
>  }
>  add_option 6 {
>   name {map}
>   type {name}
>   multi 0
>   desc {Name of input vector map}
>   required 1
>   options {}
>   answer {}
>   prompt {old,vector,vector}
>   label {}
>   guisection {}
>  }
>  add_option 7 {
>   name {type}
>   type {string}
>   multi 1
>   desc {Feature type(s)}
>   required 0
>   options {point,line,boundary,centroid,area,face}
>   answer {point,line,boundary,centroid,area,face}
>   prompt {}
>   label {Type}
>   guisection {}
>  }
>
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>  Arizona State University
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-- Daniel Calvelo Aros