wxGUI: Add command layer becomes unusable

[hamish]

Hi,

the "Add command layer" option is mostly unusable on Wingrass since you can't see what you're typing, and becomes oddly placed to the right of the other layer's preferences button on all platforms after you add a regular map layer.

see attached screenshots.

also I notice if I add a "--ui" or "--help" term to the command layer they silently get stripped off instead of acting as expected; and if I add a non-image creating module command is used there (like r.mapcalc) it seems to be ignored, limiting the kind of imaginative light scripting you can do with it.

finally, if you press the Del key while editing text in that line, it deletes they layer line and everything you just carefully typed in. :-(

thanks, Hamish

[hamish]

wxgui add command layer on Windows XP

[hamish]

wxgui add command layer on Windows XP

[hamish]

wxgui add command layer on Linux

[annakrat]

Replying to hamish:

Hi,

the "Add command layer" option is mostly unusable on Wingrass since you can't see what you're typing, and becomes oddly placed to the right of the other layer's preferences button on all platforms after you add a regular map layer.

see #1239, I thought I had fixed the first point already, the second one cannot be fixed easily

see attached screenshots.

also I notice if I add a "--ui" or "--help" term to the command layer they silently get stripped off instead of acting as expected; and if I add a non-image creating module command is used there (like r.mapcalc) it seems to be ignored, limiting the kind of imaginative light scripting you can do with it.

what is 'acting as expected'?

finally, if you press the Del key while editing text in that line, it deletes they layer line and everything you just carefully typed in. :-(

I am not going to fix any of these issues now for 6.4.3.