[GRASSLIST:10662] Re: [GRASS5] Re: Transparency added

[Huidae Cho]

Running a separate graphics software only to view displayed maps is too much.
I got your point but I think GRASS should be standalone.  If there will be no
display drivers, could you make gis.m interact with the command line so that
the user can use gis.m as a display driver?  I know Hamish didn't mean this by
"widget-free GUI window".


On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:41:16AM -0700, Michael Barton wrote:
> 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.

However, the user should not be forced to use GUI :-).

Huidae Cho

> 
> 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
> >> __________________________________________
> >> Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
> >> School of Human Evolution and Social Change
> >> Arizona State University
> >> Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
> >> 
> >> phone: 480-965-6213
> >> fax: 480-965-7671
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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
> >> 
>