[GRASS-user] interactive multiple selection

[Michael Barton]

On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:05 PM, <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org>  
wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:45:40 +0100
> From: Vincent Bain <bain at toraval.fr>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] interactive multiple selection
> To: GRASS user list <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> Message-ID: <1232559940.6769.10.camel at vincent-desktop>
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>> Very much related to this, please see my suggestions for updates to
>> the GRASS query functions. Most should be relatively minor changes,
>> but would make querying much easier. And it would make it easier to
>> implement GUI wrappers for interactive querying.
>>
>> <http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_6.3_Feature_Plan> "Updates to
>> vector querying "
>
> OK, good perspective !
>
> Concerning the GUI wrapping of commands such as v.what or v.select,
> will it imply the ability to query directly within the display  
> window ?

Yes. That's the idea. Martin Landa already has tried to implement this  
to some extent in the new wxPython GUI. But it involves a lot of  
workarounds for inadequacies in the GRASS vector querying. These  
updates to querying modules would make this easier and more robust.

Michael