#2042: wxgui: no more menu access to r.in.gdal / v.in.ogr
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Reporter: mlennert | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.3
Component: wxGUI | Version: svn-trunk
Resolution: | Keywords: r.in.gdal, v.in.ogr, gui
CPU: Unspecified | Platform: Unspecified
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Comment (by mlennert):
Replying to [comment:28 martinl]:
> Replying to [comment:27 mlennert]:
>
> > Could you explain where this dialog comes from ? AFAIU, it is not the
automatically created dialog based on the parser, or ? So even the --ui
doesn't even give the normal interface anymore ?
>
> the dialog is still autogenerated, the only difference is that for
gisprompt 'datasource' is used GDALSelect widget (1), so nothing special
in forms.py.
Beautiful ! Great job, thanks !
> BTW, by normal interface do you mean just textctrl? It's was not normal,
it was just not designed at all. You needed to type full path to the file,
directory, or connection string manually. I don't feel it as normal in the
sense of (interactive) GUI.
+1
"Normal" meant "the one I'm used to". I hadn't followed your changes to
forms.py and suddenly got the feeling that by some automagic, typing
v.in.ogr somehow circumvented the normal GUI creation process. The current
implementation is much better.
I agree, however, that this needs to be improved. Notably, as you mention,
you cannot import in a loop, but you can select a directory of shapefiles
as datasource and then select several layers in that directory and import
those. They are then imported as one vector map (with name of the first
layer if you don't set an output name), containing the content of all
shapefiles selected in separate layers in that map. Potentially quite
confusing for the user.
Maybe the directory option should be desactivated while this isn't solved,
or at least a big warning printed somewhere, unless you are working on
fixing that issue in a near future ? When that is done, we won't even need
what I called the "wizard" anymore, or ?
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