[GRASSLIST:8344] Re: New GIS Manager version

[Carlos "Guâno" Grohmann]

I just updated my GRASS_6.1. The new GIS MAnager is great! Well, I
don't _love_ the green, but it is nice :)..
The RBG/HIS buttons were long expected!

Great job Micheal!

Carlos



On 9/16/05, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>  I've just committed a fairly major update to the GIS Manager to the cvs for
> GRASS 6.1.  
>  
>  It is evolutionary rather than revolutionary. But it still has a number of
> new features that I hope will continue to make the many functions of GRASS
> more accessible. I've also posted it to my website at
>  
>  <http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/files/grass_gismgr/>
>  
>  The file is GIS_manager050912.tgz
>  
>  It includes a replacement $GISBASE/etc/dm directory with all files and a
> new script, d.out.file, for the $GISBASE/scripts directory.
>  
>  One of the main features of the GIS Manager update is that all major
> display functions are now GIS Manager layers with options panels. This makes
> them much easier to manipulate AND to save in workspaces. All options panels
> now have integrated help buttons. I also added a print to default printer
> via lpr in the file menu. This lets you print what you see on the screen
> (assuming your default printer is configured correctly). New updates to
> ps.map recently committed to the cvs provide another way to get nice printed
> output. Note that the printer icon remains a link to print ONLY some raster,
> vector, and label files via ps.map.
>  
>  The new format made the old "display" menu redundant and it has been
> removed (although all modules and their TclTk interactive dialogs are still
> available from the command line).  This led to a little rearrangement of the
> menu structure. Several items have moved to file: primarily gis file
> management functions (this was a suggestion a long time back). The GIS menu
> (which some people didn't like) has changed to a configuration menu. Slope
> arrows in raster cells moved to raster/terrain and histograms moved to
> image/reports and stats. The remaining entries from the old display menu
> that are not in other locations or GIS Manager layers are primarily for
> programming (d.linegraph).
>  
>  The GIS Manager is somewhat more compact, with a new arrangement of
> functions: monitor control down the left side, general display controls and
> tools on the top toolbar and layers on bottom toolbar. I've also added
> color. Grey is OK for the eyes, but grey on grey is hard to see and pretty
> dull. Grass is green, so the GIS Manager is green.
>  
>  The new script (d.out.file) replaces and expands d.out.png. It makes it
> easy to save the current display monitor to various graphic file formats
> (along with PNG and PNM, it adds JPEG, TIF, and BMP with compression options
> for PNG and JPEG). It uses the GRASS PNG driver and gdal because they come
> with all GRASS installations. Other utilities (e.g., netpbm and imagemagick)
> have more options but are not required for a GRASS installation.
>  
>  Let me know what works and what doesn't. Several members of the developers
> list have helped me test it pretty thoroughly, but I probably missed
> something somewhere.
>  
>  Enjoy!
>  Michael
>  ______________________________
>  Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
>  School of Human Evolution and Social Change
>  Arizona State University
>  Tempe, AZ  85287-2402
>  USA
>  
>  voice: 480-965-6262; fax: 480-965-7671
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>  


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              Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Guano   
  Geologist M.Sc  - Doctorate Student at IGc-USP - Brazil
Linux User #89721  - carlos dot grohmann at gmail dot com
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