[GRASS5] viewing map attribute table

Radim Blazek blazek at itc.it
Wed May 25 09:10:14 EDT 2005


Moritz Lennert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Another missing feature in GRASS is the capacity to easily view the map
> attribute table. The current option is 'db.select TableName', but the output
> is not very beautiful and is difficult to browse.
> 
> I think this feature would be useful in connection with the other attribute
> management modules I just sent.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea how to create a nicer and browsable display of an
> attribute table in the tcltk interface ? I guess the easiest would be to pipe
> the db.select results into awk for formatting and then open a new tcltk window
> which displays the results.
> 
> Moritz

The form library is based on simple Web browser written in TclTk, I 
don't recall however if it supports HTML tables or not.

Radim




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