<HTML><BODY DEFANGED_STYLE="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 27, 2006, at 6:19 PM, Michael Barton wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The new gism does not use d.what.vect, but the new v.what. I'm not sure if</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">it will show information in different layers or not. But that is something</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">that should be fixable.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am looking at the v.what and it may be just me, but I don't see that it is a replacement for d.what.vect in that d.what.vect -e allows the user to interactively click on a polygon and have a form open with that polygon's attributes visible in an editable form. If an attribute has not not been assigned yet (as in the case of a new attribute column), d.what.vect -e can be used to "fill in" attributes. I'm just not seeing this kind of interactive control in v.what. Am I missing something here?</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P DEFANGED_STYLE="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P DEFANGED_STYLE="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 12.0px Helvetica">BTW, I've now fixed the show columns and show data buttons in the vector,</FONT></P> <P DEFANGED_STYLE="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 12.0px Helvetica">chart, and thematic panels so that they respect current database connections</FONT></P> <P DEFANGED_STYLE="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 12.0px Helvetica">and layer settings. So you you can see the columns and data associated with</FONT></P> <P DEFANGED_STYLE="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" DEFANGED_STYLE="font: 12.0px Helvetica">your vector file.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Also the "show attribute data" button does not seem to be working for me. While the "show attibue colmns" butotn returns the output of v.info -c map=t61v1_working layer=1to the output window:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>INTEGER|cat</DIV><DIV>INTEGER|id</DIV><DIV>CHARACTER|type</DIV><DIV>CHARACTER|class</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The "show attribute data" button returns:</DIV><DIV>GRASS 6.1.cvs (minnesota_utm):~ > table=t61v1_working database=host=localhost,dbname=ts2325 driver=pg</DIV><DIV>2</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It seems that the problem is the 2 at the end of the return. I get the expected output if I send the first part of the command from the command line:</DIV><DIV>GRASS 6.1.cvs (minnesota_utm):~ > db.select table=t61v1_working database=host=localhost,dbname=ts2325 driver=pg</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael, this may be due to the fact that I am using pg for attibute management. Just thought you should know</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Kirk</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>