[GRASS-dev] Discussing new GUI toolkit: v.pydigit

[Michael Barton]

Right click on a Mac SHOULD open a contextual menu. So this is correct
behavior on all platforms.

I'm working on a georectifier for 6.2, but have been following this
disucssion and think it's great. Take a look in the mapcanvas.tcl code to
see how we are doing the display using the png driver. Currently it must
write to disk, and we are using temp files (g.tmpfile) to do this. I know
that Glynn has started reworking the output drivers but don't know if there
will be a way to bypass the disk and send some kind of generic graphic
output directly to a GUI. Currently, I think that TclTk must pull it off
disk anyway. But this may not be the case with wxWidgets/GTK/QT

Michael
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School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

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> From: Joel Pitt <joel.pitt at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: <joel.pitt at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 14:43:18 +1200
> To: Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at centrum.cz>
> Cc: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>, <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Discussing new GUI toolkit: v.pydigit
> 
> On 6/1/06, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at centrum.cz> wrote:
>> Suggestion:
>>     mouseL 1 click - digitize
>>     mouseL dbl click - menu
>>                         |-> End digitizing
>>                         |-> Delete last
>>                         |-> Delete all
>>                         |-> Snap to closesd node
>>                         if boundary -> snap to begin
>> 
>>    mouseR - end digitizing
>>    mouseM - Delete last
> 
> I agree that we should make it usable for Mac OSX users, however
> please don't remove right-click context-sensitive menus. IMHO they
> simply workflow since relevent commands are contained therein and you
> don't have to search for the button/toolbar to carry out an operation.
> 
> Also having a strange behaviour where dbl left click brings up a menu
> instead is just confusing. Right click = menu is the expected
> behaviour by most computer users.
> 
> -- 
> -Joel
> 
> "Wish not to seem, but to be, the best."
>                 -- Aeschylus
> 
>