[GRASS-dev] wxGUI spin control for floating point ???

[Markus Metz]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Anna Kratochvílová
<kratochanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2013/3/21 Markus Metz <markus.metz.giswork at gmail.com>:
>>> What is the reason to have a spin control for floating point values?
>>> Could the spin control at least not use the number but the significant
>>> digits (same like printing with %g) for spinning? E.g. for 0.00000001
>>> I see 0.000 which is wrong. IMHO the spin control should be reverted
>>> to text input.
>>
>> sometimes float spin controls are useful sometimes not. Useful eg.
>> `d.vect size`, but not for the case you mentioned. Probably we could
>> stay with floating spin control (some improvements required)  rather
>> than plain text input. No strong opinion here.
>>
>
> Because we don't know the meaningful number of digits, I agree to use
> text input. Changing the float spin might be too much work and I think
> it is not worth it. I have changed it in r55484.

Thanks! That means we can change the r.terraflow default for d8cut
back to infinity which is a valid number (#1888)?

Markus M
>
> Anna