[GRASS5] d.m - d.what.vect

[Moritz Lennert]

On Wed, November 24, 2004 11:02, Radim Blazek said:
> Moritz Lennert wrote:
>> On Tue, November 23, 2004 15:47, Radim Blazek said:
>>
>>>Why d.what.vect is run with -x flag in d.m?
>>>
>>>http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/grass51/display/d.m/vector.tcl.diff?r1=1.27&r2=1.28
>>>
>>
>>
>> Because some of us have problems with d.what.vect and the form library
>> making
>> it unusable in GUI mode (unless you add a sleep(1) in main.c:
>>
>> http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2004-September/015393.html
>> and
>> http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2004-October/015746.html
>>
>> Moritz
>
> There is "Print query output as text in terminal" check box in
> vector options. The problem is, that '-x' is now hardcoded
> in d.m, I think that we should return to original
>
>    set cmd "d.what.vect map=$opt($id,map)"
>    if { $opt($id,_query_text) } {
>      append cmd " -t"
>    }
>
> and we can discuss if the check box should be default on or off.
> I believe that people using d.m usually also wants to use GUI
> for d.what.vect, so I think, that the default value for that checkbox
> should be off if it works for more users than it doesn't.
>
> How many users do have the problem with form?

I don't know.

If it is only a problem for a few and the checkbox exists (I have to admit
that I never noticed it) than I would agree to your suggestion.

Moritz