[GRASS-dev] reducing screen clutter

[Chemin, Yann (IWMI)]

Maybe we can modify the GUI preferences:

Default: All dialog boxes close after a run is complete
In Preferences: Tick this box if you want the dialog boxes to be closed manually (i.e. stay after a run)

something that direction might meet both edges.



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From: grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Michael Barton [michael.barton at asu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:49 PM
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Subject: [GRASS-dev] reducing screen clutter

Periodically, there are complaints about 'screen clutter' with GRASS. I realized yesterday that a big cause of this is that each time a module is called, a new instance of its dialog opens. So if you use v.buffer but don't close the dialog, and then call v.buffer again GRASS opens a second v.buffer dialog...and a third and a fourth, etc. So there seems to be the need to have the wxPython parser module to just bring the window for a module to the front if it is already open instead of opening another instance. Sounds simple but is probably somewhat complicated of course. But it would help the clutter problem a great deal.

Michael


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