[GRASSLIST:6930] Re: Wishes/bug

[Michael Barton]

Although I'm not quite clear what you're asking about in a couple of items,
most or all of the wishes/bugs you mention have been addressed in the
current 6.1 cvs version.

Michael


On 5/27/05 5:40 AM, "Pedro Camilo Alcántara Concepción"
<camilo at pcbiol.posgrado.unam.mx> wrote:

> Hello list
> 
> I have using GRASS 6 for a while on some projects in Mexico. During those
> time I have had some experiences that made me realize some wishes and
> found some bugs on it.
> 
> WISHES:
> 
> Main menu:
> 
> I believe that the first option of the GRASS GIS Manager menu must be
> Workspace. and here must be included the GIS options.
> 
> Raster/ vector:
> 
> I like a more intuitive interface to choose colors, graphic if possible
> (well, I believe that the console command option must be usable too). Some
> people found hard to thing on RGB tables if they like a new color. May be
> something like the GIMP interface to pick colors would work fine.
> 
> Digitizing a new vector layer:
> 
> I believe that is a bad idea to share databases for boundaries and areas,
> it is confusing for the users and at the end it could carry some mistakes
> converting from raster to vector formats (maybe with a new option on the
> r.to.vect command that use only the area label or boundaries instead of
> reading both).
> 
> On the contrary, I suggest to use the same code or share the same window
> between the digitizing interface and the main menu, sometimes the user
> tends to believe  both interfaces are zooming the same area.
> 
> It could be annoying to found an empty window when you are starting to
> digitize a new map, even when you already had some maps displayed on the
> GIS Manager. The Background configuration tab is really hidden inside the
> settings window and it has a different interface than the main GIS
> Manager.
> When you start a new vector layer it's mandatory to build a table. It is
> not clear for the begginers. I believe that it could be fixed asking the
> first time using a popup window.
> During the labeling process of a new vector layer appears a Form to fill
> he fields, is really frequent that the user fill the fields, press the
> "submitt" button and then choose another command(button) from the v.digit
> menu, this simple action freezes the window because the user must close
> the form winfow before choose a new command, it seems to be mandatory.
> I guess that's a lack of some code to get the same behavoir than the use
> of other commands and close the database and the form properly.
> 
>  ----
> ----
> BUGS
> 
> ---
> When you use the command:
> g.region -p
> 
> Current window start to stretch every time you click the right button
> ---
> One day (I sent an e-mail to this list) I try to compile GRASS 6.03 on a
> AMD 64 processor's computer using a Gentoo distibution. While compiling I
> got many errors on the imagery modules. After several attempts, I found
> that the problem was the fftw libraries, even when it was configured to
> use with and without the -aPIC flags, grass didn compile well until i
> recompile the fftw with the strict use of -aPIC option. I guess that the
> modules in grass are lacking for some internal flag to switch the library.
> At the end GRASS compiled without any problem.
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards
>  --
> Pedro Camilo Alcántara Concepción
> -----------------
> camilo @ pcbiol.posgrado.unam.mx
> camiloalcantara @ hotmail.com
> -----------------
> pcbiol.posgrado.unam.mx  Thursday May 26 2005 22:05:00 CDT
> -----------------
> Las revoluciones se producen en los callejones sin salida.
> -- Bertold Bretch. (1898-1956).

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