[GRASS5] GIS Manager update for testing

[Moritz Lennert]

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Michael,

Congrats for all this work !

Here my first impressions (no particluar order, just typing as I'm
testing):

- - Don't know if I'm a big fan of the green ;-) Would be nice to
leave choice to user... But in no ways a priority !

- - Little type on line 279 of thematic.tcl: 'wehre' instead of 'where'.

- - The command line created by the vector panel does not take into
account the line width setting.

- - I don't find the grass icon as a help button very clear. Maybe
just a question mark, or a combination (fat question mark on top of
grass icon) would be better. Also, by placing it next to the text
field for map name input, it is not clear that this is the help
button for the entire module.

- - placing a barscale with a mouse, clicking on the right mouse
button to confirm the location, I get the following error and the
rest of the group elements are not drawn:

child process exited abnormally
child process exited abnormally
    while executing
"exec -- d.barscale tcolor=0:0:0 bcolor=255:255:255 at=2,2 -m >@
stdout 2>@ stderr"
    ("eval" body line 1)
[...]

- - I would rename the File->Manage 2D and 3D maps to simply 'Manage
maps'.

- - I don't find File->Workspace/group very clear. Maybe just
File->Groups (or Map groups) would be clearer ?

Ok, don't have more time at the moment.

But this is a great improvement. Thanks !

Moritz


Michael Barton wrote:
> IR17;ve finished a fairly major update to the GIS Manager. I’d
> appreciate it if some of you could test it before I commit it to the CVS.
> 
> It is evolutionary rather than revolutionary. But it still has a number
> of new features that I hope will continue to make the many functions of
> GRASS more accessible. I’ve posted it to my website at
> 
> <http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/files/grass_gismgr/>
> 
> The file is GIS_manager050909.tgz
> 
> 
> It includes a replacement $GISBASE/etc/dm directory with all files and a
> new script, d.out.file, for the $GISBASE/scripts directory.
> 
> Features of the GIS Manager update include a major display functions are
> now GIS Manager layers with options panels. This makes them much easier
> to manipulate AND to save in workspaces. All options panels now have
> integrated help buttons. I also added a print to default printer via lpr
> in the file menu.
> 
> Getting rid of the display menu led to a little rearrangement of the
> menu structure. Several items have moved to file: primarily gis file
> management functions (this was a suggestion a long time back). The GIS
> menu (which some people didn’t like) has changed to a configuration
> menu. Slope arrows in raster cells moved to raster/terrain and
> histograms moved to image/reports and stats.
> 
> The GIS Manager is somewhat more compact, with a new arrangement of
> functions: monitor control down the left side, general display controls
> and tools on the top toolbar and layers on bottom toolbar. I’ve also
> added color. Grey is OK for the eyes, but grey on grey is hard to see
> and pretty dull. Grass is green, so the GIS Manager is green.
> 
> Let me know what works and what doesn’t. I’ve tested it a lot, but
> probably missed something.
> 
> Enjoy!
> Michael
> 
> ____________
> Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
> School of Human Evolution and Social Change
> Arizona State University
> Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
> 
> phone: 480-965-6213
> fax: 480-965-7671
> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
> 


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