[GRASS5] new scripts for GRASS 5.7

[Radim Blazek]

On Friday 02 April 2004 18:53, Michael Barton wrote:
> I started looking at GRASS 5.7 in detail over the past couple days, and
> started in on a comprehensive menu system for it. I am starting in
> TclTk (because I already have the scripts done for GRASS 5.3) but can
> switch to another format when appropriate.
>
> A couple things became clearer when I started going through GRASS 5.7
> systematically (necessary in order to see what to put on the menu and
> what to take off).
>
> 1. A huge amount of work has been done to port GRASS 5 to the new
> format. However, there are still many commands and modules that need to
> be redone to work for GRASS 5.7. This is a tremendous task and the few
> people that are doing much of the work need as much help as they can
> get. In this respect, I started testing scripts from GRASS 5.3 that are
> not yet ported to GRASS 5.7. I'll provide a full list of what I find
> out soon. In the meantime, I also started making scripts that work in
> 5.7 compatible with the run-time generated GUI dialogs. I'm including
> the first couple that I did last night for submission to the CVS. They
> are d.monsize and my d.out.png script. I'd be happy if anyone wanted to
> further test them on another system besides Mac OSX. With d.out.png,
> people can now get nice looking output from GRASS 5.7 to insert into
> another document or print.

PNG may be also written from 'Print' dialog in d.m. It does not support
all d.* commands because it uses ps.map, but supports line width.

Radim