<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><I>You have the ‘use SQL query’ box checked and nothing in the query field. Uncheck this box.</I></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Whoops, Yes indeed.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I must have accidentally selected this... </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>However, this unfortunately does not solve my problem.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have tried multiple vector files, from tutorials, my own v.org imports and I have never been able to get the labels to work...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I hope there may be some other little catch I am not picking up on...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thank you for your quick responses , much appreciated...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>cheers!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>mars</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Phone 250 845 7999</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-size: 12px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Mars Sjoden</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">3320 Mount Davis Way</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Houston BC</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">V0J 1Z2</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-size: 12px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">READ CAREFULLY. </SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="; font-size: 12px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;; font-family: Times New Roman; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 9px; ">By reading this email</SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 9px; ">, you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies ("BOGUS AGREEMENTS") that I have entered into with your employer, its partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in perpetuity, without prejudice to my ongoing rights and privileges. You further represent that you have the authority to release me from any BOGUS AGREEMENTS on behalf of your employer</SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 9px; ">.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="font-size: 12px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 19-Mar-07, at 11:56 AM, Michael Barton wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px">A picture is worth a lot of words, even if not the full thousand.<BR> <BR> You have the ‘use SQL query’ box checked and nothing in the query field. Uncheck this box.<BR> <BR> Michael<BR> <BR> <BR> On 3/19/07 11:12 AM, "Amaginary Studios" <<A href="mailto:amagine@telus.net">amagine@telus.net</A>> wrote:<BR> <BR> </SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px">Thank you for the quick reply!<BR> <BR> <FONT color="#001ECE"><I>You need to type into the column name box the name of the column (i.e., database field)<BR> </I></FONT><BR> hmm hmm,<BR> <BR> I have tried this, many times. Including using full CapsLock.<BR> <BR> I have double checked by using the "manager" db.select table button...<BR> <BR> Here is a little picture, to visualize what I am doing. Perhaps this can help find what I am doing wrong here,<BR> <BR> grass label problems picture <A href="http://www.pixilive.com/uploads/20070319/grass%20label%20problems.tiff"><http://www.pixilive.com/uploads/20070319/grass%20label%20problems.tiff></A> <BR> <BR> Thank you!<BR> <BR> Mars<BR> <BR> <BR> Amaginary Studios <A href="http://amaginarystudios.spymac.com"><http://amaginarystudios.spymac.com></A> <BR> <A href="mailto:amagine@telus.net">amagine@telus.net</A><BR> Phone 250 845 7999<BR> <BR> Mars Sjoden<BR> 3320 Mount Davis Way<BR> Houston BC<BR> V0J 1Z2<BR> <BR> READ CAREFULLY. <BR> </SPAN><FONT size="1"><SPAN style="font-size:9.0px">By reading this email, you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies ("BOGUS AGREEMENTS") that I have entered into with your employer, its partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in perpetuity, without prejudice to my ongoing rights and privileges. You further represent that you have the authority to release me from any BOGUS AGREEMENTS on behalf of your employer.<BR> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px"><BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> On 19-Mar-07, at 10:19 AM, Michael Barton wrote:<BR> <BR> </SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px"> You need to type into the column name box the name of the column (i.e., database field) in your vector attribute table that you want to use for labeling. You are getting the error because whatever you have in the box is not the correct name of a column (field).<BR> <BR> Michael<BR> <BR> <BR> On 3/19/07 9:13 AM, "Amaginary Studios" <<A href="mailto:amagine@telus.net">amagine@telus.net</A>> wrote:<BR> <BR> <BR> </SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px">Mac OS X.4.9 - GRASS 6.2/6.3 Williams Latest Builds March 2007<BR> <BR> I am having no luck in displaying Labels for various vectors.<BR> <BR> I thought perhaps It had something to do with my PostgreSQL connection, so I tried a tutorial file from:<BR> <A href="http://www.gdf-hannover.de/download">http://www.gdf-hannover.de/download</A><BR> for the GDF Hannover Tutorial <A href="http://www.gdf-hannover.de/lit_html/grass60_v1.2_en/node52.html"><http://www.gdf-hannover.de/lit_html/grass60_v1.2_en/node52.html></A> <BR> <BR> I still have the same problem of not being able to display labels.<BR> <BR> Now, perhaps I do not understand how the columns work for selecting the attribute column for the labels...<BR> <BR> I select the attribute columns button from the vector display manager, and I can see my column 'titles'<BR> I then type in the column title name I wish to display as a label in the field provided.<BR> <BR> When I go to re-draw the display, the Output pane errors that there is not such column name. <BR> <BR> Sometimes the full vector file is not even displayed until I uncheck the 'Labels' box.<BR> <BR> Thank you for your help,<BR> <BR> Mars<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> Amaginary Studios <A href="http://amaginarystudios.spymac.com"><http://amaginarystudios.spymac.com></A> <BR> <A href="mailto:amagine@telus.net">amagine@telus.net</A><BR> Phone 250 845 7999<BR> <BR> Mars Sjoden<BR> 3320 Mount Davis Way<BR> Houston BC<BR> V0J 1Z2<BR> <BR> READ CAREFULLY. <BR> </SPAN><FONT size="1"><SPAN style="font-size:9.0px">By reading this email, you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies ("BOGUS AGREEMENTS") that I have entered into with your employer, its partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in perpetuity, without prejudice to my ongoing rights and privileges. You further represent that you have the authority to release me from any BOGUS AGREEMENTS on behalf of your employer.<BR> <BR> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px"> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> </SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px"><BR> <BR> __________________________________________<BR> Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology<BR> School of Human Evolution & Social Change <BR> Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity<BR> Arizona State University<BR> <BR> phone: 480-965-6213<BR> fax: 480-965-7671<BR> www: <A href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton">http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton</A> <BR> <BR> <BR> </SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px"><BR> <BR> </SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px"><BR> <BR> __________________________________________<BR> Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology<BR> School of Human Evolution & Social Change <BR> Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity<BR> Arizona State University<BR> <BR> phone: 480-965-6213<BR> fax: 480-965-7671<BR> www: <A href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton">http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton</A> <BR> <BR> </SPAN></FONT> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>