My guess without reading any documentation/code. & is a common indicator for accelerator key in GUI strings (i.e. "&File" to make alt+F to work). As --interface-description contains & i.e. "Files & format", I would bet on that.
Maris. 2013/10/9 Vaclav Petras <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > > I've noticed that the ampersand character is interpreted strangely when it > is in the `guisection` property of module option, e.g.: > > > #% guisection: Files & format > > > is added for the following options in the m.proj module > > > G_OPT_F_INPUT > > G_OPT_F_OUTPUT > > G_OPT_F_SEP > > > However, the resulting section in the wxGUI generated module form/dialog is > `Files format`. Is & interpreted in some special way, e.g. for translation? > I was not exploring this more since the number of involved parts is high and > I hope that someone might have better overview. > > > Moreover, if you look at the generated form you can see that `input` is > still in required, although G_OPT_F_INPUT has guisection specified. This > seems that unless you explicitly specify `required: no` guisection is > ignored. > > > I must say that I was not even trying to find some documentation for this > since these things are usually under-documented. Thus I don't know if this > behavior is bug or a feature. > > > Vaclav > > > > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
