[GRASS-user] g.rename & wx GUI

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2009/1/18 Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>:
> On Jan 18, 2009, at 10:00 AM, <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>> 6)in Layer Manager ->properties ->"Name of imput vector map" set the
>> new name of vector map
>> 7)try re-render map display: get nothing.
>> 8)To display vector map (which is just  renamed) I have to remove
>> vector layer from Gis Layer Manager (lost all setting properties) and
>> re-add.
>>
>> Is it possible to avoid point 8 (map display refresh with the same
>> vector with new name)?
>
> This is a user error, not a problem with the GUI. The GUI is behaving
> correctly. While it would be nice to make the GUI sufficiently robust to
> deal with such user errors, but I'm not sure how. You have told the
> rendering system to display a map of a particular name. Then you changed the
> name of the map. Lacking cyberpsychic abilities, is no way for the rendering
> system to know the new name of the map unless you tell it. So when it tries
> to render a map that no longer exists, it correctly gives an error message
> that the map doesn't exist.

that's right, but Paulo reported something else,

>> 6)in Layer Manager ->properties ->"Name of imput vector map" set the
>> new name of vector map
>> 7)try re-render map display: get nothing.

<- here the map layer should have been rendered again. Now fixed in
all active branches.

Martin

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