[GRASS-dev] Re: grass-dev Digest, Vol 2, Issue 19

[David Finlayson]

As far as I am concerned, there are more pressing issues for GRASS than the GUI.

#1. is an (optional) portable shell that doesn't require (but doesn't
inhibit) a UNIX back end
#2. is a complete face-lift to the map production capabilities of GRASS.

I recently designed several large-format maps for a public display of
our mapping capabilities (coastal USGS). I found that I didn't have
the control or flexibility I needed in GRASS to do the maps the way I
wanted. ps.map just isn't very powerful yet. I regressed to
ArcGIS/Illustrator for the first time in over a year :(

I think it was possible, just too difficult to script the rgb > his
transformations in the short time I had available. Also the map
decorations I needed just weren't available in GRASS.



On 6/8/06, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu> wrote:
> Interesting. I noticed that Tkinter and other such programs were installed
> by default with my new Python package. I don't think that's a reason not to
> look for a better GUI. But I am learning that TclTk has been a pretty good
> choice for GRASS (not a primitive relic) up till we have started wanting to
> do some considerably more sophisticated interface things. It just wasn't
> used to its fullest.
>
> Michael
> __________________________________________
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> School of Human Evolution & Social Change
> Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
> Arizona State University
>
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>
> > From: David Finlayson <david.p.finlayson at gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:13:05 -0700
> > To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> > Cc: <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> > Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: grass-dev Digest, Vol 2, Issue 19
> >
> > FWIW, tk is the "default" GUI of Python and is installed by with
> > virtually all Python platforms.
> >
> >
>
>


-- 
David Finlayson