[GRASS-dev] grass6.2?

[Michael Barton]

What about geometry? We have to stop d.mon gism, reset the geometry, and
restart gism. How is this handled in the new system?

Michael
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Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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> From: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 02:30:32 +0100
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] grass6.2?
> 
> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>>> So, should I commit the changes to libraster to allow driver-less
>>> rendering?
>> 
>> Does this mean that I can change gis.m to render with out running d.mon?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Anything I would have to know about setting environments to do this?
> 
> If the environment variable GRASS_RENDER_IMMEDIATE is set to TRUE,
> libraster uses the built-in "PNG driver" instead of connecting to a
> monitor. All of the environment variables which the PNG driver
> understands apply to immediate rendering.
> 
> This should be backwards-compatible, i.e. so long as you don't set
> GRASS_RENDER_IMMEDIATE, everything should work as before.
> 
> I've attached the code in case anyone wants to try it now.
> 
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
>