[GRASS-dev] d.histogram: x axis ticks labels fixed

[Michael Barton]

Understood. These python utilities draw to Python canvases, and so  
normally need the GUI to run. It may be possible for them to output  
to a graphic file too. But they are designed to work in a GUI  
environment rather than a command line environment.

I don't advocate ditching d.histogram. In fact, the *easiest* thing  
from my standpoint, would be to have a sophisticated and slick C- 
graphing  module that I just had to call as a command and presto it  
creates a graphic file that I can pop into a canvas. But I have some  
understand of the complexity of writing this in C or anything else.  
That's why to use high level graphing tools to do this.

Michael
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On Jan 29, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Moritz Lennert wrote:

>>> ISTR that we had this debate before, but I would plead for some  
>>> basic
>>> graphing functionality to remain available outside of the GUI.  
>>> Now since
>>> we have decided that python is going to be the scripting language  
>>> in the
>>> future, it is probably reasonable to require it as dependency, but
>>> please make sure that you can also get the results of d.histogram  
>>> into a
>>> ps/png file at the command line.
>>>
>>> Moritz
>> Moritz,
>> For command line folks, can't you just pipe the results of r.stats  
>> into gnuplot? It would probably look better too.
>
> Probably, but it means another dependency and, more importantly,  
> another program to learn.
>
> But don't you think that it would be possible to separate the GUI  
> interface from the actual drawing code (both being in python) and  
> thus make the latter accessible also from the command line ?
>
> Moritz