[GRASS-dev] Re: grass-dev Digest, Vol 23, Issue 60

[Michael Barton]

On Mar 14, 2008, at 4:40 AM, grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:

> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:48:35 +0100
> From: "Martin Landa" <landa.martin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] wx display monitors starting at 0
> To: Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>
> Cc: grass5 <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
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> Hi,
>
> 2008/3/10, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>:
>>  I notice in the wx screenshots that the display monitors start  
>> counting at 0 not 1. This is all good and well for C & Python  
>> programmers, but for the average user it's a bit unexpected.
>>
>>  range(1, max+1)
>>
>>
>>  thoughts?
>
> seems to be inspired by naming of X-based GRASS monitors (x0, ...).
> For now I switched to range(1, max+1), see
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/30559
>
> What do you think? Should be clear before we release 6.3.0 (hoping  
> that soon:-)
>
> Martin
>
> -- 
> Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://gama.fsv.cvut.cz/ 
> ~landa *

Personally I like display numbers starting with 1. I started with 0  
because it was familiar to many GRASS users. It's not a big issue and  
can be changed pretty easily at any time (I think).

Michael