[GRASSLIST:896] Re: [GRASS5] New GRASS intro

[Thomas Adams]

Michael,

My opinion is that the manual redraw is best from the user perspective
for reasons you gave.

Tom


Michael Barton wrote:
> I could probably make them update automatically every time anything is
> changed in the layer tree. I thought about doing so and discussed this a bit
> with some of the folks contributing to the GUI discussions. The general
> feeling was that it would be better to let the user decide when to update
> the monitor. This allows you to change multiple aspects of a set of
> overlaying maps and not have to wait through a screen redraw for each
> change...the way it is in some commercial packages.
>
> Michael
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>   
>> From: Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at centrum.cz>
>> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:29:27 +0200
>> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
>> Cc: grass developers list <grass5 at grass.itc.it>, Multiple recipients of list
>> <GRASSLIST at baylor.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [GRASS5] New GRASS intro
>>
>> Hallo developers,
>>
>> personaly I do not use the new gui, because I can not use d.* commands
>> (d.rast and d.vect). I thing, that the new monitors do have the right
>> functions (zooming, panning, redrawing, ...), but it is often faster to
>> write, what map one would like to see, then to click it in the gui.
>>
>> Would it be possible to make run this monitors in background as daemons, so
>> they
>> would "observe" the png files (png1-png7) and redraw them selve every
>> time, the files would be changed?
>>
>> Jachym
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:49:19PM -0700, Michael Barton wrote:
>>     
>>> With the move toward releasing GRASS 6.2, it?s time we had a new intro to
>>> greet users starting GRASS.
>>>
>>> I?d hoped to make something really spiffy, easy for first time users to
>>> navigate without getting confused about GRASS jargon, but still quick for
>>> experienced users. Alas, I haven?t had the time to do all this before the
>>> impending 6.2 feature freeze, but I did manage to update things somewhat
>>> from the venerable, Spartan grey intro.
>>>
>>> I?ve rearranged the items on the intro screen to distinguish different
>>> functions, changed the descriptions to make it clearer that locations are
>>> for projections and mapsets are where a ?GIS? is stored, etc. I also added a
>>> new button to create a projection location from a georeferenced file (uses
>>> GDAL/OGR via g.proj). Finally, I added some color to the intro. No I didn?t
>>> make it green, but I did add a nice GRASS graphic.
>>>
>>> Many thanks to Markus who helped me get this committed to the cvs, where it
>>> now resides for your geospatial enjoyment.
>>>
>>> I think the next step would be to replace the g.setproj terminal screen for
>>> defining projections with a nicer GUI one based on g.proj. Another thing
>>> would be to add a search function to the excellent EPSG codes database.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Michael
>>> __________________________________________
>>> Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
>>> School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>>> Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
>>> Arizona State University
>>>
>>> phone: 480-965-6213
>>> fax: 480-965-7671
>>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
>>>
>>>       
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