[GRASS-user] WxGUI issues: refresh and labels

[Micha Silver]

Richard Chirgwin wrote:

> Thanks everybody, I will just send one response!
>
> First - Micha, thank you! I didn't even know there was another box to 
> check.
>
>
I'd like to raise the question (again) regarding displaying vector 
labels in wxGUI and the need to check the "attr" checkbox in the 
"Optional" tab.
The d.vect command requires specifying both the attrcol=xxx and the 
display=shape,attr parameters. In parallel to that, the wxGUI window for 
displaying a vector requires in the "Labels" tab to select the labels 
column, *and* in the "Optional" tab to check the attr checkbox.

While I appreciate the need to keep the GUI in line with the 
command-line options, the above GUI arrangement is just not intuitive.  
I'm sure Richard won't be the last user to get caught by this.

Is it not possible to add the display=attr checkbox to the "Labels" tab, 
so that you do all labeling actions - enable labeling, choose the column 
along with label fonts, colors etc - in the *same* place?? Perhaps even 
leave the "Name of column", "Label color", etc all greyed out unless the 
Enable labeling (i.e disp=attr) is checked...

Thanks,
-- 
Micha