[GRASS5] Re: [GRASSLIST:4063] GRASS5.03 vs GRASS5.7

[Hamish]

> > One thing I miss in the new GUI of GRASS 5.7 that I have in GRASS 
> > 5.03: The little blue text saying "Running..." and "Finished". It
> > was really usefull and now it is sometimes difficult to know if a
> > command is still busy or has already finished. (This is especially
> > true for a newbie when I have no idea how long a command would
> > normally run at different resolutions).
> 
> This is something generated (or not) within each command module. Some 
> of them have it in GRASS 5.7. Most of the scripts I've written or 
> updated from GRASS 5.3 to 5.7 print a message when they are done. 
> Sometimes it doesn't really matter and other times it is very helpful.

This should really be in G_parser() or G_gui(), not in every module.
Problem is, the module is started with "&" so the Tcl script doesn't
know when it finished. Also the module is started from the Tcl with >1
parameter, so a argv==0 test doesn't help. I could get it to work if I
wrote to stdout before launching G_gui() [*], but then it would put
"Finished." in the wrong place when you ran it from the command line.

[*] stderr is written immediately into the tcl window;
    stdout after the module has finished (e.g. r.profile).



> What is most annoying to me are those older commands that send an
> email message when they are completed. Of course these go to an
> internal mail system and never reaches the email I normally look at.
> Periodically I look up how to get these messages. Then, because I
> rarely use this, I promptly forget it.


grepping through the 5.7 source:

imagery/i.rectify/exec.c
imagery/i.rectify/mail.c
imagery/i.rectify/report.c
imagery/i.ortho.photo/photo.rectify/exec.c
imagery/i.ortho.photo/photo.rectify/mail.c
imagery/i.ortho.photo/photo.rectify/rectify.c
imagery/i.ortho.photo/photo.rectify/report.c
lib/gis/error.c




Hamish