[GRASSLIST:10657] Re: [GRASS5] Re: Transparency added

[Huidae Cho]

I second Hamish that there should be GUI free monitors like XDRIVER.
Otherwise, the only way to work with the new display architecture is through
GUI, which means we cannot control display from the command line.  For example,
with ArcGIS, we have only GUI, but with ArcInfo (AML version), we have both CLI
(command line interface) and GUI.  One problem with GUI is scriptability.
Personally, I use the mouse for tasks that I cannot do easily only with the
keyboard.  For this reason, I prefer to use d.m with the command line, but it
looks like I cannot do this with gis.m (?).

Huidae Cho


On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:48:33AM -0700, Michael Barton wrote:
> Hamish,
> 
> What do you mean in the wish below? Just trying to understand users' UI
> needs.
> 
> Michael
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> > From: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> > Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 22:24:02 +1300
> > To: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> > Cc: <grass4u at gmail.com>, <landa.martin at gmail.com>, <GRASSLIST at baylor.edu>,
> > <grass5 at grass.itc.it>
> > Subject: Re: [GRASSLIST:10416] Re: [GRASS5] Re: Transparency added
> > 
> >> XDRIVER is currently being cleaned up in preparation for being killed
> >> off altogether. The future of the display architecture is for
> >> libraster (and thus d.* programs) to generate graphic files for use by
> >> the GUI.
> > 
> > I hope that there will continue to be a simple and fast widget-free "GUI"
> > window which can be controlled from the command line?
> > 
> > 
> > Hamish
>