[Qgis-developer] QGIS and GRASS 7.0.0

[Vaclav Petras]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Radim Blazek <radim.blazek at gmail.com>
wrote:

> - modules GUI - my idea is to throw away the qgm and qgc definitions
> and auto generate GUI for modules with all options based on
> --interface-description only, also the list of modules would be auto
> generated for all modules.
>

Hi Radim,

it would be good if you can include GRASS Addons, too. There is a lot of
requests for installing/running GRASS Addons from QGIS, e.g. at
gis.stackexchange.com.

Also, there are some files in GRASS GIS which might be quite useful [1].
toolboxes.xml [2] contains GRASS GIS modules sorted into different
tooboxes. They are currently not part of the official API but it is just a
matter of declaring them as part of API I guess [3]. GRASS wxGUI is using
these files to create a menu and module tree in Search module tab. It is
also a way to customize wxGUI [4] but that's not related to QGIS use case.

Loading Addons dynamically to menu or module tree including their
descriptions seems to be a bit challenging but if nothing else wxGUI can
always run a module installed using g.extension (or custom user script) if
it can run and give --interface-description.

Best,
Vaclav

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/gui/wxpython/xml
[2]
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/gui/wxpython/xml/toolboxes.xml
[3]
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/gui/wxpython/docs/wxgui_sphinx/src/wxgui_toolboxes.rst
[4] http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/wxGUI.toolboxes.html
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