[GRASS5] Re: bugs in 5.7's tcltkgrass

[Michael Barton]

Radim,

This sounds like a very nice idea.

Michael


On 10/15/04 1:29 AM, "Radim Blazek" <blazek at itc.it> wrote:

> On Friday 15 October 2004 08:38, Hamish wrote:
>>>> 3. all modules I tried in 5.7 display this instead of percents only:
>>>> Percent complete:    2%   5%   8% (...) 100%
>>> 
>>> On my computer, it goes:
>>> 
>>> Percent complete: 2%/b/b/b/b5%/b/b/b and so forth...most of the time.
>>> Other times, it stops after a few increments, then does nothing until
>>> 100%
>> 
>> To fix this basically we need a G_is_ui() function which could be called
>> in G_percent():
>> 
>> 
>> printf("%3d%%", percent_done);
>> if( G_is_ui() )
>>    printf("\n");  // newline
>> else
>>    printf("\b\b\b\b");  // 4x backspaces
>> 
>> easier said than done though.
> 
> I think that we should define format of messages printed
> when module is run from GUI. For example
> PERCENT: %d
> which can be parsed by GUI and displayed in progress bar.
> 
> The format could be switched on by enviroment variable.
> 
> Radim

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