[GRASS-dev] v.out.ogr browse button for output

[Helena Mitasova]

On Feb 18, 2013, at 11:19 AM, Markus Metz wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>> I noticed that students had hard time finding or defining the path to the file exported by v.out.ogr
>> (in our case it was a kml file) because there is no browse button - is there a reason for the missing
>> Browse for this command?
> 
> OGR access to vector data requires a data source name (dsn) and a
> layer name. The data source could be a PostGIS database in which case
> a browse button does not make sense. In other cases, e.g. kml or
> shapefiles, the dsn can be a directory or file name, or both. This is
> too much flexibility for an automatically generated gui and the reason
> for the new interfaces for r.in.gdal and v.in.ogr.
> 
> You can also set the current working directory in the GUI with
> Settings->GRASS working environment->Change working directory. This
> affects only the GUI, not the shell.

this is actually what I was looking for, I could not find it in GRASS6.4.3 but I see that it is in GRASS7.
It could resolve several issues for Windows users.

thanks a lot, Helena
> 
> Markus M
> 
>> r.out.gdal has such button and it was suggested but Helmut some time ago:
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2009-July/051356.html
>> 
>> Helena
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