[GRASSLIST:1171] Re: creating a desktop GIS application using GRASS

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:07:59PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Greg Ford wrote:

> > Consequently the GRASS GUI is a little clunky,
> > but would be quite difficult to replace.
> 
> Not necessarily. There aren't any significant technical obstacles to
> producing something better than tcltkgrass. There are many minor
> obstacles, in the form of programs which perform largely gratuitous
> user interaction.
> 
> The only major obstacles are:
> 
> 1. Finding someone to actually write it.
> 2. Agreeing upon a GUI toolkit to use.
> 3. A small number of programs which are inherently interactive
> (v.digit, i.points).

Note that there is a reference implementatin to parse
the command options XML output to automatically and dynamically
build an wxpython GUI. Jan-Oliver estimates that it is about
5 days straight concentrated work to have that up to the point of
the abilities of the current tcltk grass.
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