Helena,
For the past couple years, I've been so tied up in projects and administration that Martin has had to shoulder the very large load of GUI development and maintenance alone. My admin responsibilities changed this summer and it looks like I'll begin to have a little more time to make some contributions to GRASS again. I'm happy to help you with this as a way to get back into GRASS.
Thanks for doing this. As Martin says, it is pretty much a port of the help file I did for the TclTk GUI a couple years back. So it needs to be updated to match the new configurations and new tools.
I'd agree about dropping the silk icon set. That was a test and IMHO has been replaced by the nice, new grass2 set. I'd keep the old "classic" set because at least some people tell me they prefer them. Also, it keeps the mechanism to add new sets should someone become industrious and artistic.
I like the idea of showing the preset color tables. Probably they go best in the r.colors help page, it seems to me. Note that there is a new color table creation tool that works on both rasters and vectors.
I have not written a wxpython version of xganim, like I did with TclTk. Glynn (I think) did a standalone wxpython animator. But I remember some issues with it, maybe platform related, but it does exist. Wxpython makes it easier to craft an upgraded replacement for xganim in the new GUI. There are a couple of other modules that still need replacing (I forget what they are, but there is a list somewhere).
If we could get someone interested in adding a few features and regularizing others in the vector query modules, as I suggested awhile back (it's on the Wiki), it would be relatively easy to have quite sophisticated interactive vector querying. As it is now, it's doable but something of a pain.
Anyway, I'm glad that you are exploring the new GUI. I think it is a nice improvement over the TclTk one since wxpython gave us a chance to start from scratch. I'll be in touch over some other things soon.
Best
Michael
On Sep 4, 2009, at 12:55 AM, grass-dev-request@lists.osgeo.org wrote:
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 23:12:26 -0400
From: Helena Mitasova <hmitaso@unity.ncsu.edu>
Subject: [GRASS-dev] wxGUI Help
To: GRASS developers list <grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org>
Message-ID: <4EDA5637-5A8B-4FFE-9F4D-2D646D6F02C9@unity.ncsu.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowedI am wondering - is anybody updating the wxGUI help
(or plans to do so in near future0?If not, I be happy to do that (submit into grass65?)
but it would definitely need to be reviewed because I am not
a GUI person and I am just learning it - which may a good thing
for the manual development.Just a few notes -
- can we skip the silk icons? There are too many icons which makes
the help confusing- It is not clear from the help that e.g. legend is under add
overlays: text, legend, barscale
- add raster does not seem to be correctly described (old stuff from
tcltk?)Also, Would it be possible to generate an image or formatted text
showing
the GUI tree for the raster, vector and other commands - no matter
how logically you organize the commands there will be users with their
own interpretations struggling to find modules. Currently, I recommend
to type the command into Cmd and hit Enter, but one needs to know the
command
for that.Another question: is there an animation tool in wxpython GUI -
something like xganim?
animation under tcltk works but it is a little bit tricky to usethanks,
Helena
P.S. I haven't abandoned the color table img issue - hopefully I will
get back to it later on (unless somebody else does it meanwhile).