[GRASS5] nviz vector points display

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:25:38AM +0100, Radim Blazek wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> >On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:34:59PM -0500, Helena wrote:
> >...
> >
> >>And finally - we just got rid of all the messages produced by nviz
> >>(thanks to Bob) to make sure that user does not miss any warnings given 
> >>at the start
> >>of the program but now
> >>GRASS_INFO_PERCENT: xx writes each new % on new line, so the user sees 
> >>just endless
> >>lines of this - can the message be written  on the same line as before?
> >>This is causing problems in v.surf.rst too.
> >
> >
> >I assume that
> >
> > g.gisenv set=GRASS_MESSAGE_FORMAT=gui

Sorry, that's nonsense.

 export GRASS_MESSAGE_FORMAT=gui

would be right.

> >
> >will toggle the message format.
> >I have recently modified the init script to set GRASS_MESSAGE_FORMAT
> >according to user selection of working in text or GUI mode.
> >Not sure if it works correctly (but I think so).
> >
> >GRASS_MESSAGE_FORMAT is documented at:
> > g.manual variables &

Here it's documented correctly.

In case of errors on that page please correct them.

Also I would like to request developers to add new variables
there.

> GRASS_MESSAGE_FORMAT should NOT be set in init script, it should only be 
>  set if a module is run from GUI, which is capable to handle GUI output 
> format, i.e. currently ONLY the autogenerated GUI.

OK, removed. I had added it to avoid the same problems as of Helena.

How to avoid this output of GRASS_INFO_PERCENT: xx?

> GRASS_MESSAGE_FORMAT is enviroment variable, not GRASS variable.

Sure, sorry for the confusion.

Markus