[GRASS-user] FW: How to allow a file browser dialog in shells cripts

[Patton, Eric]

Thanks Hamish and Markus for the reference. Is there a way to have the file
loader dialog box open in a certain directory like $GISDBASE, for instance?

~ Eric. 

-----Original Message-----
From: grassuser-bounces at grass.itc.it
To: grassuser at grass.itc.it
Sent: 6/22/2006 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] FW: How to allow a file browser dialog in
shellscripts

Hamish wrote on 06/22/2006 11:35 AM:

>Eric wrote:
>  
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>>I'm trying to create a script to load plan ascii files as input. I'm
>>unfamiliar with all of the possible variations for the gisprompt
>>parameter structure. I want to allow the user to browse the Mapset to
>>load each ascii file.
>>    
>>
>
>add to the option definition:
>
>#% gisprompt: old_file,file,input
>
>e.g. m.proj.
>
>
>  
>
>>While we're on the topic, can anyone explain why there are usually
>>several gisprompt parameters allowed for in most Grass shell scripts?
>>What do all these mean?
>>    
>>
>
>
>somewhere deep in the programmers' manual or lib/gis/parser.c ...
>
>from memory:
>
>old/new  - whether to open map/file browser; checks that it won't
overwrite
>element  - the directory in $MAPSET, if applicable
>prompt   - mostly unused nowadays?
>
>  
>
Here is the list:
http://mpa.itc.it/markus/grass61progman/
 -> File List <http://mpa.itc.it/markus/grass61progman/files.html>
   -> paerser.c
 
http://mpa.itc.it/markus/grass61progman/parser_8c-source.html#l00326

Markus

Markus

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