[GRASS-user] GUI enhancements

[Glynn Clements]

Michael Barton wrote:

> > Perhaps these have been mentioned before but I haven't found it.
> > Possible additions to the GUI:
> > 1) Various styles of dotted or dashed lines
> > 2) Ability to select multiple files (say vectors) and change them (say
> > colour or width) all simultaneously.
> > 
> > I'm trying to display a dem basemap, hydrology layer, and 10 important
> > vector lines all in grey scale (for publication). There just aren't
> > enough shades of grey for that.
> 
> Good ideas that I and other people would like to see too. These would need
> to be implemented in the underlying GRASS display command (d.vect) rather
> than the GUI. It can only show what d.vect produces.

And d.vect can only produce that which is supported by the graphics
architecture. Currently, that doesn't include dashed lines.

Wait for 7.x, when extending the set of available graphics functions
will become a lot easier.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>