This sounds like a familiar problem. Most file/web
browsers let the choose whether to stay in the same
window or open a new one when browsing to a new
location.
So perhaps there should be an option in the GUI to
"allow multiple windows per module" which could be
set to "false" by default?
Ben
On 05/24/2012 05:34 PM, Paulo van Breugel wrote:
True that having the same dialogue open several times can be annoying.
But not always, it may come in handy if you want to run the same module
several times with different parameters (run at the same time, or
prepare one while the other is still running; btw, I actually never
checked how it is handled if you run the same function twice in
parallel, are they run at the same time on different cores?).
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Michael Barton <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
This is one way, but not exactly what I was talking about. In fact,
sometimes it is very useful to keep a dialog box open to rerun the
same module repeatedly with different parameters.
What I meant is that once it is open, GRASS should not open
additional dialogs for the same module but simply reuse the one that
is open. That way you never get 5 windows for v.distance, only
1--even if you leave it open.
Michael
On May 24, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> On 24/05/12 12:25, Chemin, Yann (IWMI) wrote:
>> Maybe we can modify the GUI preferences:
>>
>> Default: All dialog boxes close after a run is complete
>> In Preferences: Tick this box if you want the dialog boxes to be
closed
>> manually (i.e. stay after a run)
>
>
> The tick box already exists, so you are suggesting to make
closing the dialog the default ? I find it quite useful, especially
for newbies, to have the dialog open and be able to correct wrong
input, instead of having to fill the whole dialog out again... But I
can confirm that it takes some teaching to make them aware of that
feature and avoid that they open the same command ten times. ;-)
>
> Moritz
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