[GRASS-GUI] Re: [GRASSGUI] wxgrass wishes: have 1 GUI window instead of many

[Michael Barton]

On 11/26/07 3:00 PM, "twiens" <twiens at interbaun.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message Follows -----
> From: Markus Neteler <neteler at fbk.eu>
> To: grass-gui at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [GRASS-GUI] Re: [GRASSGUI] wxgrass wishes: have 1
> GUI window instead of many
> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:48:49 -0800 (PST)
> 
>> Hi wxgrass developers,
>> 
>> let me repeat my wish from earlier this year (which I
>> share with many users, I get regularly asked about this):
>> 
>> 
>> Markus Neteler wrote:
>>> 
>>> - would it be possible to optionally merge the two
>>>   main wxgrass windows into a single one? I have my
>>>   screen all cluttered with windows - it would be
>>>   way easier to have them in one. I ask optionally,
>>>   since other folks may think differently
>>> 
>>> Keep up the good work,
>>> Markus
>>> 
>> 
>> I am sure that there is a way to put the wxgrass windows
>> into a single frame (legend left and map on the right or
>> so).
>> 
> 
> IMVAO, this is the wrong approach. The clutter with wxgrass
> and with the tcltk gis manager is the "command" window that
> isn't really a command window. I've not used the wxgui since
> it became function, but the command window is the tcltk
> interface just wastes my desktop space because an xterm is
> much more functional and useful. Hopefully the wxgui command
> window is more useful, however in either case, it would be
> much more reasonable to put the command window on a tab in
> the main window. Putting the command line interface on one
> tab and legend on another is natural as command line users
> tend to avoid using gui's and vice versa.

This *IS* how wxPython GRASS works. There is no separate command I/O window.
Please try it out.

Michael

> Further this sets
> up a natural situation to what I had suggested some time ago
> using a sockets interface to allow for full command line
> control of the gui. Unfortunately, I was unable to bring
> this to a functional state. In the long term, this is a much
> better solution than linking the layers and legend settings
> to the map window like ArcView, et al. The ESRI style
> solution means duplication if you have multiple windows open
> and loss of precious desktop real estate. In the short term,
> one window could be dropped quite easily and once the xterm
> is replaced by a truly interactive command window this would
> cause loss of another window and be down to one main window
> plus one per map.
> 
> FWIW that is my opinion, but as I have no time to code now,
> or in the foreseeable future, I doubt it caries much weight.
> 
> T
> 
> --
> Trevor Wiens
> twiens at interbaun.com
> 

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