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wxGUI Toolboxes

DESCRIPTION

7       The  Toolboxes  is  a  way  to customize items in wxGUI menu. Toolboxes
8       enable to:
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10           ·   hide unused menu items in menu (e.g. Imagery, Database) or sub‐
11               menu (e.g. Wildfire modeling)
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13           ·   change order of menu items and subitems
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15           ·   add new menu items (e.g. Temporal)
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17           ·   add addons modules
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19           ·   add your own modules
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21       Toolboxes are configured through two XML files (main_menu.xml and tool‐
22       boxes.xml) located in your  user  home  GRASS  directory,  subdirectory
23       toolboxes  ($HOME/.grass7/toolboxes/  on UNIX).  Currently, there is no
24       GUI front-end for toolboxes, however only simple editing of text  files
25       is needed.
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27   Brief description of file main_menu.xml
28       This  file  represents the main menu (File, Settings, Raster, ...).  By
29       modifying this file you show and hide menu items which are  represented
30       by subtoolbox tag.
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32       Tag  user-toolboxes-list  is interpreted as a menu containing a list of
33       all user-defined toolboxes. If not needed it can be removed.
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35       Following lines can be copied to .grass7/toolboxes/main_menu.xml and by
36       removing,  adding  or  reordering  lines users can change the main menu
37       items. See further examples.
38       <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
39       <toolbox name="MyMainMenu">
40         <label>Default GRASS GIS main menu bar</label>
41         <items>
42           <subtoolbox name="File"/>
43           <subtoolbox name="Settings"/>
44           <subtoolbox name="Raster"/>
45           <subtoolbox name="Vector"/>
46           <subtoolbox name="Imagery"/>
47           <subtoolbox name="Volumes"/>
48           <subtoolbox name="Database"/>
49           <user-toolboxes-list />
50           <subtoolbox name="Help"/>
51         </items>
52       </toolbox>
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54   Brief description of file toolboxes.xml
55       This file contains structure and description of  individual  toolboxes.
56       Note  that  both Raster and e.g. Query raster maps are individual tool‐
57       boxes although one contains the other.  Tag toolbox contains subtoolbox
58       tags  which  are  defined later in the file. These nested toolboxes are
59       linked through name attribute.
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61       Apart from subtoolbox tag, tag toolbox  can  contain  individual  items
62       (modules) and separators (for visual separation in the menu tree).
63       <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
64       <toolboxes>
65         <toolbox name="Raster">
66           <label>&amp;Raster</label>
67           <items>
68             <subtoolbox name="DevelopRasterMap"/>
69             <subtoolbox name="ManageRasterColors"/>
70             <subtoolbox name="QueryRasterMaps"/>
71             <subtoolbox name="RasterMapTypeConversions"/>
72             <separator/>
73             <module-item name="r.buffer">
74               <label>Buffer rasters</label>
75             </module-item>
76             ...
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78         <toolbox name="QueryRasterMaps">
79           <label>Query raster maps</label>
80           <items>
81             <module-item name="r.what">
82               <label>Query values by coordinates</label>
83             </module-item>
84             <module-item name="r.what.color">
85               <label>Query colors by value</label>
86             </module-item>
87           </items>
88         </toolbox>
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90       To  redefine a toolbox (or use it as a template), copy specific part of
91       file grass7/gui/wxpython/xml/toolboxes.xml from GRASS installation to a
92       new  file  in  user home (.grass7/toolboxes/toolboxes.xml) and edit it.
93       Rename this new toolbox.
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EXAMPLES

96   Hiding menu items
97       If we are for example working only with raster data, we can  hide  menu
98       items  Vector  and  Database.  The file main_menu.xml then contains the
99       following lines where we omitted the two toolboxes:
100       <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
101       <toolbox name="CustomizedMainMenu">
102         <label>Default GRASS GIS main menu bar</label>
103         <items>
104           <subtoolbox name="File"/>
105           <subtoolbox name="Settings"/>
106           <subtoolbox name="Raster"/>
107           <subtoolbox name="Imagery"/>
108           <subtoolbox name="Volumes"/>
109           <user-toolboxes-list />
110           <subtoolbox name="Help"/>
111         </items>
112       </toolbox>
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114   Creating custom toolbox
115       In this example we create a new toolbox Favorites  containing  existing
116       GRASS  module  and toolbox, custom module created by the user and addon
117       module.  The toolboxes.xml file contains following lines:
118       <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
119       <toolboxes>
120         <toolbox name="MyFavorites">
121           <label>&amp;Favorites</label>
122           <items>
123             <module-item name="g.region">
124               <label>Set region</label>
125             </module-item>
126             <module-item name="r.mask">
127               <label>Mask</label>
128             </module-item>
129             <separator/>
130             <module-item name="m.myown">
131               <label>Do my own stuff</label>
132             </module-item>
133             <module-item name="i.histo.match">
134               <label>Calculate histogram matching</label>
135             </module-item>
136             <subtoolbox name="RasterReportsAndStatistics"/>
137           </items>
138         </toolbox>
139       </toolboxes>
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141       Optionally, we can add this  toolbox  to  the  main  menu  items.   The
142       main_menu.xml file contains following lines:
143       <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
144       <toolbox name="CustomizedMainMenu">
145         <label>Default GRASS GIS main menu bar</label>
146         <items>
147           <subtoolbox name="File"/>
148           <subtoolbox name="Settings"/>
149           <subtoolbox name="Raster"/>
150           <subtoolbox name="Vector"/>
151           <subtoolbox name="Imagery"/>
152           <subtoolbox name="Volumes"/>
153           <subtoolbox name="Database"/>
154           <user-toolboxes-list />
155           <subtoolbox name="Favorites"/>
156           <subtoolbox name="Help"/>
157         </items>
158       </toolbox>
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160       If  we have user-toolboxes-list tag in the main_menu.xml file, our cus‐
161       tom toolbox will be listed in the automatically  added  Toolboxes  main
162       menu item. The screenshot shows the resulting menu:
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NOTES

165       After  the first start of wxGUI with custom toolboxes, .grass/toolboxes
166       directory will contain file menudata.xml which  is  auto-generated  and
167       should not be edited.
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SEE ALSO

170        wxGUI
171       wxGUI components
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AUTHORS

174       Anna Petrasova, OSGeoREL, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical
175       University in Prague
176       Vaclav Petras, OSGeoREL, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech  Technical
177       University in Prague
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179       $Date: 2016-03-08 09:06:33 +0100 (Tue, 08 Mar 2016) $
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SOURCE CODE

182       Available at: wxGUI Toolboxes source code (history)
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