[GRASS-dev] Re: g.rename consolidation

[Hamish]

> > Glynn Clements wrote:
> >> Tcl knows when a process finishes by the "eof" from the stream
> >> identifier which "open |..." returns. There's no reason why the
> >> Tcl/Tk GUI can't add something to the gronsole when the command has
> >> finished, regardless of whether or not the module uses
> >> G_done_message().
> > 
H:
> > then let's do it!

Michael Barton wrote:
> Isn't this what Cedrick's code already does? When a module starts, a
> little running person icon shows up in the output window (i.e., the
> module is "running"). When the module finishes, the little runner goes
> away.

I'd prefer to see this in the module's gui window "Output" tab, not the
gis.m output console.

Or at minimum replace the spent runner with a green tick mark if the
module exited with a successful exit code.


Hamish