[GRASS-dev] Ampersand and required behavior of module option's guisection

[Maris Nartiss]

My guess without reading any documentation/code. & is a common
indicator for accelerator key in GUI strings (i.e. "&File" to make
alt+F to work). As --interface-description contains & i.e. "Files
& format", I would bet on that.

Maris.

2013/10/9 Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
>
> I've noticed that the ampersand character is interpreted strangely when it
> is in the `guisection` property of module option, e.g.:
>
>
> #% guisection: Files & format
>
>
> is added for the following options in the m.proj module
>
>
> G_OPT_F_INPUT
>
> G_OPT_F_OUTPUT
>
> G_OPT_F_SEP
>
>
> However, the resulting section in the wxGUI generated module form/dialog is
> `Files format`. Is & interpreted in some special way, e.g. for translation?
> I was not exploring this more since the number of involved parts is high and
> I hope that someone might have better overview.
>
>
> Moreover, if you look at the generated form you can see that `input` is
> still in required, although G_OPT_F_INPUT has guisection specified. This
> seems that unless you explicitly specify `required: no` guisection is
> ignored.
>
>
> I must say that I was not even trying to find some documentation for this
> since these things are usually under-documented. Thus I don't know if this
> behavior is bug or a feature.
>
>
> Vaclav
>
>
>
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