[GRASS-user] Re: [GRASS-dev] maybe bugs

[Michael Barton]

Interesting. Consistency?

Michael
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> From: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:20:08 +0100
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: Martin Wegmann <wegmann at biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>,
> <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>, GRASS user list <grassuser at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Re: [GRASS-dev] maybe bugs
> 
> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> I understand the confusion after the many years of having a single region
>> that affected everything--including all displays.
> 
> This isn't entirely accurate. The display library allows a region to
> be associated with each frame, and will use that in preference to the
> current region.
> 
> One consequence of this is that modules which use the display library
> may behave differently to those which use the raster library directly.
> For this reason, some tutorials recommend running d.erase whenever the
> current region is changed (IOW, forcing the frame's region to match
> the current region, which seems to defeat the purpose of associating a
> region with a frame).
> 
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>