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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN DEFANGED_STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>IR17;ve just committed a fairly major update to the GIS Manager to the cvs for GRASS 6.1. <BR>
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It is evolutionary rather than revolutionary. But it still has a number of new features that I hope will continue to make the many functions of GRASS more accessible. I’ve also posted it to my website at<BR>
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<<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/files/grass_gismgr/</U></FONT>><BR>
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The file is GIS_manager050912.tgz<BR>
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It includes a replacement $GISBASE/etc/dm directory with all files and a new script, d.out.file, for the $GISBASE/scripts directory.<BR>
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One of the main features of the GIS Manager update is that all major display functions are now GIS Manager layers with options panels. This makes them much easier to manipulate AND to save in workspaces. All options panels now have integrated help buttons. I also added a print to default printer via lpr in the file menu. This lets you print what you see on the screen (assuming your default printer is configured correctly). New updates to ps.map recently committed to the cvs provide another way to get nice printed output. Note that the printer icon remains a link to print ONLY some raster, vector, and label files via ps.map.<BR>
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The new format made the old “display” menu redundant and it has been removed (although all modules and their TclTk interactive dialogs are still available from the command line). This led to a little rearrangement of the menu structure. Several items have moved to file: primarily gis file management functions (this was a suggestion a long time back). The GIS menu (which some people didn’t like) has changed to a configuration menu. Slope arrows in raster cells moved to raster/terrain and histograms moved to image/reports and stats. The remaining entries from the old display menu that are not in other locations or GIS Manager layers are primarily for programming (d.linegraph).<BR>
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The GIS Manager is somewhat more compact, with a new arrangement of functions: monitor control down the left side, general display controls and tools on the top toolbar and layers on bottom toolbar. I’ve also added color. Grey is OK for the eyes, but grey on grey is hard to see and pretty dull. Grass is green, so the GIS Manager is green.<BR>
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The new script (d.out.file) replaces and expands d.out.png. It makes it easy to save the current display monitor to various graphic file formats (along with PNG and PNM, it adds JPEG, TIF, and BMP with compression options for PNG and JPEG). It uses the GRASS PNG driver and gdal because they come with all GRASS installations. Other utilities (e.g., netpbm and imagemagick) have more options but are not required for a GRASS installation.<BR>
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Let me know what works and what doesn’t. Several members of the developers list have helped me test it pretty thoroughly, but I probably missed something somewhere.<BR>
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Enjoy!<BR>
Michael<BR>
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology<BR>
School of Human Evolution and Social Change<BR>
Arizona State University<BR>
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402<BR>
USA<BR>
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voice: 480-965-6262; fax: 480-965-7671<BR>
www: <a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton">http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton</a><BR>
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