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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Thanks! We keep trying to make it better. Glad that you think we are succeeding with this.<BR>
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Michael<BR>
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On 6/5/07 4:32 AM, "M S" <mseibel@gmail.com> wrote:<BR>
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I really like the GUI setup for GRASS under GIS.M. It is very intuitive and the non-modal windows are *awesome*. truely lets one multi-task while GRASSing. Great improvement over the previous GUI. that output manager is sweet too! Plus the menus can be undocked. Compariing to it to that *other* software company that is so prevalent in the US, GRASS is more logically organized (even for those of us across the great blue sea! =D in their "toolbox" there are so many eye-candy widgets that one often finds them self searching for the tool in the "help" because it takes so much time to root throgh the unclearly organized "toolbox". <BR>
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GRASS is wonderful. I have been using it for many years now learning and light use. Now that I am using it extensively I have really come to appreciate the rich features, great interface and reliability.<BR>
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All the developers have really built a great GIS. Keep up the great work. It is enjoyed by many.<BR>
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Mark<BR>
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On 6/5/07, <B>Hamish</B> < hamish_nospam@yahoo.com <a href="mailto:hamish_nospam@yahoo.com"><mailto:hamish_nospam@yahoo.com></a> > wrote:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Michael Barton wrote:<BR>
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> That said, it could be convenient to attach/dock a map display to the <BR>
> layer manager, in order to move them around together. I'm looking into<BR>
> a way to do that. May or may not be possible.<BR>
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if this is possible, it would make both camps happy.<BR>
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another way too gee-whiz eye candy solution is a pop-down semi- <BR>
transparent heads-up-display overlay in the display window. ;)<BR>
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> This is not referring to the properties dialogs for each GRASS<BR>
> command. These are unavoidable if you want to run the command, but can<BR>
> be closed to clean up the screen. Press OK instead of Apply and the<BR>
> window goes away. Grouping them into a single MDI wouldn't make them<BR>
> any easier to work with or less cluttered. Hamish has suggested making <BR>
> them modal by default, with the option of keeping them open if you<BR>
> want via a checkbox. This sort of forces you to keep your screen clean<BR>
> unless you really want to do otherwise.<BR>
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Ah, I didn't know about [Ok] and [Apply] for the module GUIs. That's a <BR>
lot clearer than a "keep alive" checkbox, and obviates the need.<BR>
Generally I think that Apply buttons are not that useful, but they could<BR>
do a very nice job here.<BR>
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Hamish<BR>
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