[GRASS5] [bug #2776] (grass) d.text when interactive should say where to enter text

[Michael Barton]

Should this be run in an xterm from the GUI instead of from a tcltk dialog?

Michael


On 12/5/04 12:25 AM, "Hamish" <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=2776
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> When we do
>> $ d.text
>> there is no comment seen in the "wish" window telling us to return to
>> the terminal window and enter text.
> 
> true.  try  "echo `g.version` | d.text"
> 
> from the help page:
> 
> "DESCRIPTION
>    d.text draws text in the active display frame on the graphics
>    monitor. Text can be provided through standard input or redirected
>    from a file (using the UNIX redirection mechanism)."
> 
> 
> Yes, a text= option like d.text.freetype is missing.
> Perhaps change the module's description until that is done?
> 
> I've been meaning to do further cleanups & sync'ing between d.text and
> d.text.freetype for a while. Also merge in mouse placement from
> d.barscale. It's not a high priority for me though.
> 
> 
>> P.S., and when we do go there, we see
>> bad window path name ".pw.f0.frame.optwin.fra.frame.lab4"
> 
> fixed after 5.7.0.
> 
> 
> Hamish
> 
> 
> 

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