[GRASS-dev] g.gisenv in gui

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 8 02:34:29 EDT 2007


Michael Barton wrote:
> 
> Found another minor item that a small change could improve.
> 
> g.gisenv does not behave like other GRASS commands in that you cannot
> launch the autogenerated gui by typing Œg.gisenv¹ from the command
> line. Instead, you get the current environment settings. You can only
> get the gui if you run it through some special processing in the GUI.

for a GUI just launch with:
  g.gisenv --ui

use that as the menu command.

A number of modules work like this without command line args.


> Likewise, you can¹t get it to print out current environment settings
> from the gui unless you do some tricks with its execution.

g.gisenv store="" --ui
[Run]

Probably a nice GUI frontend should be used for that, vs exposing the
user to the raw g.gisenv GUI.


Hamish




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