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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN DEFANGED_STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>I just committed to the CVS and posted to my website <a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/files/grass_gismgr"><http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/files/grass_gismgr></a> the (hopefully) final release candidate for the new GRASS GIS Manager. It has many updates. I think I’ve fixed all reported bugs or anomalous behavior—and a number of unreported ones. A few of the highlights.<BR>
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A fix for the ‘black canvas’ that some people have been getting. In the future, I’ll be implementing a different solution when I change the compositing procedures that create the map displays. But this should work for now.<BR>
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‘Sticky’ zooming—by popular demand. Also, the ‘helpful’ messages now show up in the status area at the bottom of the screen instead of a little message window that you have to click to get rid of.<BR>
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A new text layer of high-resolution postscript text to replace d.text and d.text.freetype. Along with this comes easier ways of selecting fonts.<BR>
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A ‘zoom to current region’ button so that map displays can use regions set using g.region. <BR>
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Usability improvements to the print dialog.<BR>
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Redesign of all layer panels to make them easier to use.<BR>
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A few added convenience features. The one I like the best was inspired by Peter Misovic’s questions about displays and queries. You can now save the results of a display query—in the vector display—to a new vector file (using v.extract).<BR>
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Thanks for all the suggestions and testing. When this release candidate goes through testing and any remaining bugs are removed, I hope to make this the default GUI for GRASS.<BR>
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Along with this, I’d encourage updates to additional modules to make this all work even more seamlessly. For example...<BR>
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-a new i.gcp module to replace i.points and i.vpoints. i.gcp would accept input coordinate pairs x1,y1,x2,y2 (for existing point coordinates and desired georeferenced coordinates), manage the ascii points file, and calculate rms errors. Graphic could be handled by a GUI.<BR>
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-a new vector (and raster?) digitizing module that would accept xy coordinate pairs and create new vectors or edit existing vectors<BR>
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-update nviz to work without needing an xmonitor and to display in a map display canvas.<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
Michael<BR>
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology<BR>
School of Human Evolution and Social Change<BR>
Arizona State University<BR>
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402<BR>
USA<BR>
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voice: 480-965-6262; fax: 480-965-7671<BR>
www: <a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton">http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton</a><BR>
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