[GRASS5] [bug #4323] (grass) gis.m: intelligent defaults for d.rast.arrow

[Michael Barton]

I'll see if there is a way to set these as defaults.

Why can't grid color = none be the default on the underlying C module?

It might or might not be complicated for the arrow spacing. D.rast.arrows is
not designed to make dynamic arrow spacing (a flag to add???), so I suppose
that you would have to reset it all manually if you zoomed in or out.

Michael
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:04:02 +0200 (CEST)
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> Subject: [GRASS5] [bug #4323] (grass) gis.m: intelligent defaults for
> d.rast.arrow
> 
> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=4323
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> Subject: gis.m: intelligent defaults for d.rast.arrow
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The new gis.m makes it easy to use d.rast.arrow, but the defaults are all
> wrong for the typical gis.m experience.
> 
> suggestion:
> 
> calculate the canvas size in pixels as well as the region size, then calculate
> what gives you an arrow every 8-12 pixels.
> 
> set the arrow scaling to about 2 times the grid spacing.
> 
> set the grid color to "none".
> 
> It will be nice for these things right out of the box whenever possible.
> 
> Is it possible? (then what happens on resizing monitor or zoom?)
> 
> 
> thanks,
> Hamish
> 
> 
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