[GRASS5] viewing map attribute table

[Moritz Lennert]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 15:10, Radim Blazek said:
> 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.

There seem to be some problems with the form library at least under Debian, so
I am a bit hesitant of going that way.

Moritz