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

[Radim Blazek]

Sorry, I dont understand, see my comments

Moritz Lennert wrote:
> On Mon, December 13, 2004 15:56, Michael Barton said:
>>While I was confused about the function of these options, all are in the
>>tcltk code for the vector display panel in the d.m. All but the -e flag are
>>in d.vect.
>>
>>Moritz filled me in on print width and I've gone ahead and added the -c
>>flag. It looks to me that the -e flag is a mistake. This leaves the -x flag.
>>I'm not sure it's helpful in the d.m. But I'd like to see if anyone
>>agrees/disagrees.
> 
> I agree with you. I would just confuse users. And those that want to use it
> are probably more of the command line type anyhow.
 >
>>On 12/13/04 1:47 AM, "Radim Blazek" <blazek at itc.it> wrote:
>>>>There are 2 checkboxes labeled "print query output as text in terminal" and
>>>>"edit attributes"

Yes.

>>>>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.

That is true for d.vect, but it is used for d.what.vect, without this 
checkbox and option nobody can use GUI form.

>>>>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?

Yes, it must be there at least until GUI form works on all platforms. In 
GIS manager there is 'vector layer' which is using d.vect and 
d.what.vect, it is not just 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?

d.what.vect :
-e   Open form in edit mode.

Also this option is important.

>>>>As I thought I understood it, the print width setting only works with
>>>>ps.map. But perhaps it is called if you use the print dialog in the GIS
>>>>Manager? I guess the question is does this setting actually do anything
>>>>from
>>>>within the GIS Manager or is it something that people will only be able to
>>>>use via ps.map?

Of course it does. PS maps generated from GIS Manager use this parameter.

Radim