[GRASS-user] [GRASSLIST:1181] d.m/d.gis mysteries..

[Michael Barton]

Most GRASS commands create or modify maps. You can display any map in gis.m.

It is not clear what you want to do. If you'd like a shell-script to
automatically create a display, you cannot do this in gism, because the
display is done within TclTk. You can have a shell script use GRASS commands
to display a map in an xterminal or in some kind of viewer that will
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
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> From: Zbigniew Perski <perski at us.edu.pl>
> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:30:29 +0200
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: 'GRASS user list' <grassuser at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] [GRASSLIST:1181] d.m/d.gis mysteries..
> 
> Dear Michael and Markus,
> 
> Thanks a lot for response. Of course the problem I was mentioned is
> related to gis.m not d.gis - sorry about that.
> 
>> From followed discussion I see that it is really something not easy but
> I would like to ask my questions again (in a more direct way I guess):
> 
> 1. Is it possible to display result of grass bash script with gis.m?
> 2. If it is possible what should I modify in my scripts to be able to do
> that?
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Zbigniew
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 09:11 -0700, Michael Barton wrote:
>> Following discussions with Hamish, it seems best to leave things as they are
>> for 6.2.
>> 
>> In 6.3, I recommend 'decoupling' the menus of d.m and gis.m so as to make
>> continued updating of the latter easier.
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it>
>>> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:00:52 +0200
>>> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
>>> Cc: 'GRASS user list' <grassuser at grass.itc.it>
>>> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] [GRASSLIST:1181] d.m/d.gis mysteries..
>>> 
>>> Michael Barton wrote on 08/29/2006 08:42 PM:
>>>> The GIS Manager (gis.m) is the default GUI interface in 6.1+. In 6.1, we've
>>>> maintained the old GUI interface (d.m) for legacy compatibility. To help
>>>> keep the menus in sync, there is a common menu file for both (menu.tcl).
>>>> The
>>>> menu items file for gis.m (gmmenu.tcl) reads menu.tcl for all items it has
>>>> in common with d.m. For a few new items (e.g., georectifier), it adds them
>>>> into its own menu file.
>>>>   
>>> Question: can we remove
>>>  gui/tcltk/d.m/menu.tcl
>>> then since it is unused?
>>> 
>>>> I am anticipating that we'll drop d.m completely for 6.2 and merge all the
>>>> menu items back into a single file
>>>>   
>>> To avoid confusion: it is not dropped for 6.2, it even (still?) exists
>>> in 6.3.
>>> 
>>> Markus
>>> 
>>> 
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