[GRASS-GUI] Re: [GRASSGUI] wxgrass wishes: have 1 GUI window instead of many

[Trevor Wiens]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:50:30 +0100
Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Trevor and others. 
> 
> I always raised my hand for having the GUI completely manageable from
> command line. When I started to work on wxgrass, I tried hard to have
> the map windows independent on the manager windows. Set of command line
> commands was provided, which where wrappers for raster and vector
> commands -- see
> https://grasssvn.itc.it/grasssvn/grassaddons/trunk/grassaddons/gui/scripts/#_trunk_grassaddons_gui_scripts_
>  for examples. I used temporary files for the communication, because of
> AFAIK, there are problems with sockets on non-unix platforms (correct
> me, if I'm wrong).

unix style sockets yes, but not TCP sockets which are quite a robust cross-platform solution to achieve this result using Python. This is important if we were still thinking of a python based command line interface to eventually replace bash. Also, with this solution is that it would be easy to wrap it such that hard core bash users would still be able to use bash to achieve the same results.

> 
> Sorry, I'm not as involved in GRASS development, as I was before (I hope
> to return once). But Trevor, feel free to update/write from scratch this
> feature. I'm sure, we two are not the only ones, who would like to have
> new nice Wx GRASS monitors, manageable from command line.
> 

Likewise I'm also sad I don't have time to code, but I do occasionally through out an idea here and there and hope that the good ones stick to someone who does have the time.

T
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