<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> </div><br><div><div>On Apr 15, 2009, at 8:21 AM, <<a href="mailto:Doug_Newcomb@fws.gov">Doug_Newcomb@fws.gov</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><p><tt><br> >it is nice to keep a module gui open so you can tweak one parameter and<br> >run it again. it is nice to keep a couple open and switch between them<br> >if you are doing something on a multi-processor machine (if doing so<br> >within a single mapset, at your own responsibility and risk that the<br> >computation region etc is not changed of course :) for that reason you<br> >might want to have e.g. 3 r.in.xyz's running at the same time, each<br> >crunching along on a different statistical method.<br> </tt><br> <tt>This is something that I do a lot and is extremely valuable when simultaneously bulk processing multiple return Lidar data for different statistics. Please keep this feature of the gui!</tt></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Which feature?<br><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><div><div>______________________________</div><div>C. Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology</div><div>Director of Graduate Studies</div><div>School of Human Evolution & Social Change</div><div>Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity</div><div>Arizona State University</div><div>Tempe, AZ 85287-2402</div><div>USA</div><div><br></div><div>voice: 480-965-6262; fax: 480-965-7671</div><div>www: <a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton">http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><p><br> <br> <br> Doug<br> <br> Doug Newcomb <br> USFWS<br> Raleigh, NC<br> 919-856-4520 ext. 14 <a href="mailto:doug_newcomb@fws.gov">doug_newcomb@fws.gov</a><br> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.<br> <span><graycol.gif></span>Hamish <<a href="mailto:hamish_b@yahoo.com">hamish_b@yahoo.com</a>><br> <br> <br> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr valign="top"><td style="background-image:url(cid:2__=0ABBFF0ADFC783288f9e8a93df938690@fws.gov); background-repeat: no-repeat; " width="40%"> <ul> <ul> <ul> <ul><b><font size="2">Hamish <<a href="mailto:hamish_b@yahoo.com">hamish_b@yahoo.com</a>></font></b><font size="2"> </font><br> <font size="2">Sent by: <a href="mailto:grass-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">grass-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a></font> <p><font size="2">04/14/2009 11:31 PM</font></p></ul> </ul> </ul> </ul> </td><td width="60%"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="1%"><span><ecblank.gif></span><br> <div align="right"><font size="2">To</font></div></td><td width="100%"><span><ecblank.gif></span><br> <font size="2">Martin Landa <<a href="mailto:landa.martin@gmail.com">landa.martin@gmail.com</a>>, Michael Barton <<a href="mailto:michael.barton@asu.edu">michael.barton@asu.edu</a>></font></td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="1%"><span><ecblank.gif></span><br> <div align="right"><font size="2">cc</font></div></td><td width="100%"><span><ecblank.gif></span><br> <font size="2"><a href="mailto:grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org">grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>, <a href="mailto:soc@lists.osgeo.org">soc@lists.osgeo.org</a></font></td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="1%"><span><ecblank.gif></span><br> <div align="right"><font size="2">Subject</font></div></td><td width="100%"><span><ecblank.gif></span><br> <font size="2">[GRASS-dev] Re: [SoC] Proposal for wxGUI layout modifications</font></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="58"><span><ecblank.gif></span></td><td width="336"><span><ecblank.gif></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <br> <tt><br> Michael Barton wrote:<br> > Actually, I think what (I hope) was<br> > envisioned was not a true MDI--which has lost considerable<br> > popularity--but attaching the layer manager to the display<br> > window. Ideally, this could be done by docking or<br> > undocking.<br> > <br> > That said, Markus and I had some offline discussions about<br> > this since he was the proposer, in response to some user<br> > comments and his own experiences. The main complaint is<br> > having too many windows open in GRASS.<br> > <br> > After some talking about it, the real problem may not lie<br> > primarily with the layer manager/display windows but with<br> > all the module windows which a lot of people don't realize<br> > that you can set to close automatically when you push OK.<br> > Some possible solutions to this would include having all<br> > modules open in a single window with tabs or modally in a<br> > single window or modally in a window attached to the layer<br> > manager to keep down clutter. By focusing a bit much on the<br> > initial display configuration of a couple of other GIS<br> > programs (ArcGIS and QGIS, but not in a lot of others by the<br> > way), we may have missed the real cause of the perceived<br> > screen clutter. Anyway, it's something to think about.<br> <br> [we should probably move this to the grass-dev ML]<br> <br> <br> <br> Hamish<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> grass-dev mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org">grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br> </tt><tt><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev</a></tt><tt><br> </tt><br> </p></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>