On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Blumentrath, Stefan < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Anna, > > > > Thanks for your reply. The closest I found was this: > > https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1251 > that's a different one... Maybe I don't remember it correctly > > > Might be dangerous to use an asterisk at command / parser level as the > result of the evaluation (meaning the resulting list of maps) is not > necessarily known to the user in advance (or may be different from what he > or she expects)!? > > > > Anyway, if you consider it a useful feature I will open a ticket … > yes, thanks > > > Cheers > > Stefan > > > > > > *From:* Anna Petrášová [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 10. september 2015 15:44 > *To:* Blumentrath, Stefan <[email protected]> > *Cc:* GRASS developers list ([email protected]) < > [email protected]>; Andrew McAninch <[email protected]>; Radim > Blazek ([email protected]) <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [GRASS-dev] Wildcards in multiple map input? > > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Blumentrath, Stefan < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > For the QGIS-GRASS-plugin update Radim, Pedro, Andrew and me were > discussion how to implement multiple selections for map input in the UI in > QGIS. > > > > In this context I was thinking that the ability to use wildcards would be > really handy for GRASS newcomers. People who are not afraid of the command > line can of course easily pipe g.list output to modules with multiple input > or re-use the latter from file like e.g. in temporal modules. > > > > My idea would be to allow something like this: > > r.series input=temperature_*_05_17 > output=norway_national_day_temperature_avg method=average (in order to > calculate average temperature for Norways national day for example) > > in the GUI and/or command line, where wildcards are evaluated to a list of > available maps following that pattern. > > The “*” is not allowed in map names, right, so, whenever it appears in a > multiple map input it might used to trigger a respective g.list operation… > > > > My question is: > > Would it be of interest and feasible to add such a feature to GRASS? > > Just an idea to make things easier for beginners and those who only use > the GUI... > > > > I thought there was a ticket about this, but I can't find it. The > suggestion I remember (but it never got implemented) is to reuse a dialog > for selecting multiple maps using regular expressions (accessible from > layer manager) and have a small button near the map entry in the > autogenerated dialogs which would open this dialog and transfer the > resulting map series back in the map entry field. So this would be > implemented on the GUI level. Your suggestion would be implemented on > parser level. I guess both have some pluses and minuses. > > > > Anna > > > > > > > > Cheers > > Stefan > > > > > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev > > >
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