[GRASS5] v.transform semi-error

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:41:39AM -0700, Michael Barton wrote:
> Markus,
> 
> Happy to try to clarify now I that I've figured out why I've been 
> confused. When you use v.transform from the tcltk menu system, it says 
> to input an ascii vector map. If you click the browse button (labeled 
> "vector_ascii", as is the output map name browse button), it goes to 
> the dig_ascii to search for a map. If you select a map from there it 
> appears in the dialog window. However, when you try to run v.transform 
> (clicking the "run" button) it says file not found.
> 
> The problem seems to be that the tcltk menu system has not been updated 
> to reflect changes in v.transform. In the manual, it says binary vector 
> file and v.transform from the command line works as specified there.

OK, I have fixed that in tcltkgrassi (but didn't test).

That's why 5.7 renders the menus automatically, no such update work :-) 

Markus

> 
> On Thursday, January 29, 2004, at 07:47  AM, 
> grass5-request at grass.itc.it wrote:
> 
> >From: Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it>
> >Date: Thu Jan 29, 2004  6:01:36  AM America/Phoenix
> >To: grass5 at grass.itc.it
> >Subject: Re: [GRASS5] Testing Grass 5.3 - v.transform
> >
> >
> >On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:20:17PM -0700, Michael Barton wrote:
> >>Radim
> >>
> >>Just wanted to let you know. I tested v.transform by typing in the 
> >>name
> >>of a binary vector file (the browse button looks in the dig_ascii
> >>instead of dig folder). It worked just fine. Thanks for the tip.
> >
> >Michael,
> >
> >this is not clear to me:
> >
> >src/mapdev/v.transform/main.c
> >[...]
> >       old->gisprompt                  = "old,dig,vector";
> >
> >The version in 5.3-CVS refers to the dig file.
> >
> >Where did you find the reference to dig_ascii? Maybe in 5.0.3?
> >
> >Markus
> >
> >
> >>
> >>On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 01:54 AM, Radim Blazek wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Friday 16 January 2004 17:13, Michael Barton wrote:
> >>>>As with GRASS 5.7, I've been doing considerable testing of GRASS 
> >>>>5.3.
> >>>>Overall, it is highly stable and works very well. Here are a couple 
> >>>>of
> >>>>minor items that perhaps could be fixed before it is released as
> >>>>stable.
> >>>>
> >>>>1. v.transform does not operate correctly, at least under Mac OSX. 
> >>>>It
> >>>>requires an ASCII vector file as input, looks in the dig_ASCII 
> >>>>folder,
> >>>>but will not recognize an ASCII vector file unless it is put 
> >>>>(manually
> >>>>and incorrectly) into the dig folder. It produces an incomplete 
> >>>>output
> >>>>file (header and attributes, but no vectors). This was a problem on 
> >>>>an
> >>>>earlier release; I have tried this on the the 12 January CVS 
> >>>>snapshot
> >>>>and it is still a problem.
> >>>
> >>>v.transform was rewritten to read and write vector binary file.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Radim
> >>>
> >>____________________
> >>
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