[GRASS-dev] running v.surf.rst from GUI

[Helena Mitasova]

On Mar 8, 2009, at 9:07 AM, Martin Landa wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2009/3/8 Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at unity.ncsu.edu>:
>> 1. It is really hard to find where to put the  name of the main  
>> output
>> "elevation"
>>  - it is not under tab "outputs" but it is under tab "optional"  
>> which has
>> several inputs
>> that you actually must define if you don't want to end up  
>> interpolating
>> category
>> numbers. The tab optional isn't visible, so you need to click on  
>> the arrow
>> to get to it.
>> I think the elevation should be under outputs
>
> indeed, I am trying to keep all parameters in four tabs (which are
> visible by default). I don't feel familiar with v.surf.rst. Could you
> suggest reordering parameters to less tabs?

yes

Anisotropy can be merged into Settings (better name for that tab may  
be Parameters)
Also Analysis can be merged into Outputs

so it could be
Inputs   Outputs   Parameters

and Markus is right - guisection is missing for elev, it should be  
added here

189     parm.elev->description = _("Output surface raster map  
(elevation)");
parm.elev->guisection = _("Output_options");

and for maskmap as well (that should be under Inputs tab)

If you could change this it would be great (I won't have time until  
weekend to
do something about it)

thanks a lot

Helena

P.S. using -z instead of layer=0 is a great idea, I will look into it

>
>> 2. I was unable to change the layer number - it was stuck at 1  
>> (this may be
>> problem
>> with my installation or I am not clicking on it the right way?,  
>> typing it
>> in, deleting it did not
>> work either), so there was no way
>> to interpolate the z-coordinate. I think that the layer number  
>> should be
>
> It was a bug, fixed in r36250 (devbr6) and r36251 (relbr64).
>
>> P.S. Any chance for changing default layer to 0 at least in grass7,
>> to make it possible to run just v.surf.rst mypoints elev=myelev  ?
>> Without defining layer, it is set to 1 and category number is  
>> interpolated
>> by default if column is not defined - particularly unpleasant  
>> surprise
>> after running a longer computation. Layer number and column name  
>> can then be
>> under optional. I can make the change in grass7 if there are no  
>> objections
>> to see whether it will cause any problems.
>
> I would suggest to replace in all modules which uses 'layer=0' with
> appropriate flag.
>
> Martin
>
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> Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://gama.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa