[GRASS-dev] Holiday GUI updates to GRASS

Michael Barton michael.barton at asu.edu
Sat Dec 23 00:02:14 EST 2006


On 12/22/06 12:52 PM, "Maciej Sieczka" <tutey at o2.pl> wrote:

>> With regard to one-click zooming, it works exactly as it is designed to
>> work.
> 
> Do you mean that the single click zoom is *not* supposed to preserve
> the initial region aspect ratio in the *constrained* zoom mode?
> 
> I'd appreciate a short, straight answer.
> 
>> I've said this a couple times on the list, but perhaps you've missed
>> it.
> 
> I'll take for a joke.

?????

I thought the answer above was pretty short and straight. Here is my post of
27 November on this in its entirety. It's somewhat longer, but should
suffice.

> From: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:16:04 -0700
> To: Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it>
> Cc: <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>, Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> Conversation: [GRASS-dev] fixes before 6.2.1 [was: ps.map: scale wrong and no
> output]
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] fixes before 6.2.1 [was: ps.map: scale wrong and no
> output]
> 
> 
>> 
>>> Fixing the gis.m, so that it preserved the aspect ratio for
>>> single-click zooming in the restricted mode, is also a critical issue.
> 
> This is not a bug. The single click zoom in (and out) uses the window geometry
> to zoom in to fill the display as you get 'closer', while centering the view
> (i.e., display region) on the point you click. You can set the aspect display
> geometry with a box or with g.region--or you can simply make the display
> window the aspect geometry you want and single-click away. It works like the
> zoom in/zoom out button that GRASS lacks. IMHO, it's pretty slick. While some
> might wish it were otherwise, it is this way with forethought and intention,
> and works exactly as designed--so not a bug.
> 
> I've tried to notify you about all bug fixes that should be backported. And if
> I remember correctly, you've told me that each one was backported. The only
> possible outstanding bug is the slightly misleading error message generated
> when the GUI fails to start up because gdal is not installed or incorrectly
> installed. However, in discussions with Hamish, it is looking like this would
> be better trapped before the GUI tries to launch.
> 
> Eric Patton's text/laton grid problem is a 6.3 issue that I've not yet been
> able to replicate. The same goes for the in-progress nviz updates.
> 
> Let me know if there is anything else that comes to mind.
> 
> Michael

Michael
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