On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Hamish wrote:
A main reason for using G_done_msg() is that when run from a GUI it is not
clear when the module has finished. Preferably the module's GUI output would
print:
[green check mark] "$MODULE complete."
when the process has stopped but in the past (tcl gui) it was unclear how to do
that.
If the module is run from the command line the message is mostly redundant.
Right now from the GUI you get output like:
Loading raster map <> ...
Processing ...
Writing map ...
n features cleaned
But there really isn't any indication that the module is done.
so really G_done_mgs() use is a sypmtom of a GUI shortcoming which is impinging
onto other things.
ISTR if you look at the "title bar" for the currently running module in
the gronsole screen there is a running man icon when the module is
running, and it disappears when the module completes. Could def. be more
obvious though. And if there is a lot of output it scrolls off the top of
the screen and you don't see it.
Paul
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