[GRASS-user] Ordering in groups/subgroups

[Moritz Lennert]

Am 1. April 2018 00:51:35 MESZ schrieb jerritt collord <collord at collord.net>:
>Hi,
>
>An ambiguity I don't see in the documentation: when I create a group
>and
>subgroup of raster layers, it appears that the group definitions ("REF"
>files) have an order to them that isn't reflected in what is shown in
>the
>gui i.group tool. In fact, the order of layers in the subgroup is
>different
>than in the group.
>
>Order must matter though, because the signature files written by
>i.gensigset are purely ordinal--they don't use use layer names.
>
>1) I assume the only order that matters for tools that use the
>signature
>file is the subgroup REF file, not the group REF?

I think this is true.

>2) Is it a bug that the gui i.group tool doesn't show/allow re-ordering
>of
>layers?

I don't think so. Why would you want to reorder them ?

Moritz


>
>Thanks,
>
>Jerritt