[GRASS5] 4 more questions about d.vect for improving GIS Manager

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 13 20:41:53 EST 2004


> There are 2 checkboxes labeled "print query output as text in
> terminal" and"edit attributes"
> 
> The first call the -x flag which, according to the docs (and d.vect)
> is"Don't add to list of vectors and commands in monitor". The latter
> *sounds* like it is keeping the d.vect results out of the list that
> d.redraw checks. Is this what it is doing? If not, what IS it doing. I
> have yet to see the query output printed as text in the terminal. This
> does not seem to be a correct description of the flag. Is it worth
> keeping in the GIS Manager version of d.vect?
> 
> The second calls a -e flag. There is no such flag listed in the docs.
> Is this a holdover from an earlier version? Should I get rid of it?


These two affect d.what.vect when run from the "?" icon in d.m.
So not d.vect flags at all...


When running in MacOSX I needed to use the "Print query output as text
in terminal" (ie -x flag) as the d.what.vect Tcl GUI didn't work.. maybe
that is still the case?


Hamish




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