[GRASS5] [bug #3592] (grass) d.vect.thematic: cannot export legend with d.out.png

[Michael Barton]

This sounds like a very reasonable plan. When they are merged, it would be
nice if the combined one could also draw a circle as well as a box and line.

Michael
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Arizona State University
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> From: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:14:55 +1200
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: <grass-bugs at intevation.de>, <grass5 at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS5] [bug #3592] (grass) d.vect.thematic: cannot export
> legend with d.out.png
> 
>> How can d.graph input be added to the command history?
> 
> the input (piped from stdin) is written to a temporary file and the
> command history is changed so that the command line references that
> input file instead of expecting input from stdin. The .tmp file is
> persistent until you quit GRASS at which time it is cleared (possible
> problem with server installs, but d.text already does this eg).
> 
>> Is this something that needs to be added to the d.graph C module?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> I would like to have wish #3241 done first (merge d.mapgraph into
> d.graph)  see http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=3241
> 
> step 1) for that is merge the bugfixes and updates from d.mapgraph into
> d.graph (malloc -> G_malloc, ...), otherwise they are essentially the
> same exact code. I would prefer a better C programmer than me did this.
> 
> step 2) add -m flag to d.graph to indicate input coordinates are map
> units, not percentage of frame. I'm happy to do this part.
> 
> We should avoid duplicating the effort of modifying both modules for the
> same feature or allow one module to go off on a tangent which would make
> the merge that much harder in the future.
> 
> 
> 
> Hamish