[GRASS-user] Highlight Panel in NVIZ

[Michael Barton]

Aha!

Highlighting was a kind of query that would 'highlight' objects  
selected in a query.

Michael
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On Feb 8, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Hamish wrote:

>> Aldo Clerici:
>>> can somebody tell me what the Highlight Panel in NVIZ is for?
>>> Which objects are affected by this panel setting?
>
> unfortunately there is no panel_highlight.html help page, but here is
> what is listed in the code:
>
> 6.2.1/visualization/nviz/scripts/panel_highlight.tcl
> #* PURPOSE:   Creates a "highlight" panel and manages
> #*            color/size/marker highligh values and enabing for
> #*            "default" highlight request (see
> site_highlight_commands.c
> #*            for details and "nviz/README.ACS")
>
> 6.2.1/visualization/nviz/src/site_highlight_commands.c
> *
> *    Sites depending commands
> *
> *    Nsite_highlight "what" "site_id" "cat" ["value"]
> *       - highlights a specific geopoint -
> *      what = color/size/marker/default
> *            default: panel highlight type and values are used instead
> of "value"
> *      site_id = (string range map_name 5 end)
> *      cat = DB category associated to the specific geopoint
> *      [value] (optional) = #rrggbb for color
> *                           float for size
> *                           int for marker
> *              when omitted default value is used
> *
> *    Nsite_highlight_list "what" "site_id" "catlist" ["value"]
> *       - highlights a list of geopoints -
> *      what = color/size/marker/default
> *            default: panel highlight type and values are used instead
> of "value"
> *      site_id = (string range map_name 5 end)
> *      catlist = list of DB category associated to the each geopoint
> *      [value] (optional) = #rrggbb for color
> *                           float for size
> *                           int for marker
> *              when omitted default value is used
> *
> *
> *    Nsite_unhighlight "what" "site_id" "cat"
> *       - unhighlights a specific geopoint -
> *      what = color/size/marker
> *      site_id = (string range map_name 5 end)
> *      cat = DB category associated to the specific geopoint
> *
> *    Nsite_unhighlight_list "what" "site_id" "catlist"
> *       - unhighlights a list of geopoints -
> *      what = color/size/marker/default
> *            default: panel highlight type and values are used instead
> of "value"
> *      site_id = (string range map_name 5 end)
> *      catlist = list of DB category associated to the each geopoint
> *
> *    Nsite_unhighlight_all "what" "site_id"
> *       - unhighlights all site geopoints -
> *      what = color/size/marker/all
> *             all: unhighlights color, size and marker
> *      site_id = (string range map_name 5 end)
> *
> *
> *    Sites independent commands (for panel_highlight.tcl)
> *
> *    Nsite_highlight_set_default "what" "value"
> *       - sets highlight default type -
> *      what = color/size/marker
> *      value = 1/0 (1: turns ON / 0 turns OFF color/size/marker
> highlight)
> *
> *    Nsite_highlight_get_default "what"
> *       - returns highlight default type -
> *      what = color/size/marker
> *
> *    Nsite_highlight_set_default_value "what" "value"
> *       - sets highlight default value -
> *      what = color/size/marker
> *      value = color/size/marker value to set
> *
> *    Nsite_highlight_get_default_value "what"
> *       - returns highlight default value -
> *      what = color/size/marker
>
>
>
> Michael Barton wrote:
>> Puzzled, I just looked at NVIZ. There isn't a highlight panel in the
>> current version of NVIZ. Which version of GRASS are you using?
>
> Probably 6.2.x:
>
> http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/grass6/visualization/nviz/scripts/Attic/panel_highlight.tcl
> Revision 1.2 , Mon Nov 20 (14 months, 2 weeks ago)
> Branch: MAIN
> CVS Tags: HEAD
> FILE REMOVED
> "panel_highlight.tcl and panel_pick.tcl have been replaced by
> new combined panel_vquery.tcl."
>
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_2/visualization/nviz/scripts
> (how to easily find deleted file svn history with trac?)
>
>
>
> Hamish
>
>
>
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