I don't quite follow the proposed changes below, but I trust you that this will probably fix things.
Michael On 6/8/07 6:30 AM, "Glynn Clements" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael Barton wrote: > >> Found another minor item that a small change could improve. >> >> g.gisenv does not behave like other GRASS commands in that you cannot launch >> the autogenerated gui by typing �g.gisenv� from the command line. Instead, >> you get the current environment settings. You can only get the gui if you >> run it through some special processing in the GUI. > > See Hamish's reply. > >> Likewise, you can�t get >> it to print out current environment settings from the gui unless you do some >> tricks with its execution. > > AFAICT, the problem with g.gisenv is that it checks for argc==1 before > calling G_parser(), so e.g. "g.gisenv --quiet" causes that check to > fail. > > What it should probably do is to call G_parser() unconditionally, then > check for: > > if (!get->answer && !set->answer && !store_opt->answer) > >> To behave more �normally� it needs a �p flag. Then... >> >> g.gisenv -> autogenerated gui >> g.gisenv �p -> print current settings. >> >> I suppose that this would break a bunch of scripts, but it would be nice if >> it could work consistently with other commands. > > I suspect that this is unnecessary if the no-arguments check is fixed. __________________________________________ Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology School of Human Evolution & Social Change Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Arizona State University phone: 480-965-6213 fax: 480-965-7671 www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
