[GRASSLIST:10660] Re: [GRASS5] Re: Transparency added

[Michael Barton]

Actually, the direction that Glynn is heading seems to be toward making
GRASS more scriptable than it is now.

For example, if all d.* commmands output to a png file, without needing to
run a visualization driver like d.mon, with your choice of resolution and
size, and with a compositer like g.pnmcomp, you can write a script that
creates a complex, multilayered GIS file and outputs it to a high resolution
PNG. 

For interactive CLI work, without any GUI, you could do the same thing and
view the PNG in GIMP--updating the viewed image whenever you make a change.
This seems much more flexible than being forced to only view graphic output
in an xdisplay.

Michael


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> From: Huidae Cho <grass4u at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:25:21 -0600
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>, Glynn Clements
> <glynn at gclements.plus.com>, <landa.martin at gmail.com>, Multiple recipients of
> list <GRASSLIST at baylor.edu>, <grass5 at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASSLIST:10416] Re: [GRASS5] Re: Transparency added
> 
> 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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>> School of Human Evolution and Social Change
>> Arizona State University
>> Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
>> 
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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
>>