[GRASS5] gis.m does not use whole area

[Michael Barton]

OK. I see your problem. As Glynn, said, this is not as simple as I might
want. I will try making the canvas background a slightly different color and
see what happens.

Michael
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> From: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:40:45 +1200
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: <jachym.cepicky at centrum.cz>, <grass5 at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS5] gis.m does not use whole area
> 
>>> This has been a confusing part of GRASS for a Long long time.
>> 
>> I'll see what's possible. I guess I'm not all that confused. What is
>> blank white is not in the map.
> 
> It isn't a problem when you are dealing with imagery data that covers
> the full region, then it's pretty clear. When you are working with
> isolated vectors or raster data as islands-in-the-NULL, then it isn't
> always clear why the blob or line stops an inch from the edge of the
> pane. Any edge-of-the-world hint need not be obtrusive, 10% alpha on
> white background might be just enough .. This is especially a pain when
> doing something interactive, e.g. historically with v.digit.
> 
> 
> Hamish
>