survex to therion data conversion

[Wookey]

+++ Michael Lake [03-11-06 15:08 +1100]:
> John Pybus wrote:
> 
> > You'll also note the need to convert reference of the form
> > survey.subsurvey.station to station@subsurvey.survey .  This is also
> > rather irksome (I think it betrays therion's tcl roots?).
> OT but I think that at some point it will have to use another GUI. 
> Either GTK-anything or wxWindows or 

Yes. Everyone agrees xtherion is fairly horrid and is merely a 'proof of
concept' UI. I think stacho picked tcl because he already knew it.

Most of the people I know who are currently using illustrator rather than
therion are doing it because the interface was too slow/horrible in
comparison.

The problem is of course that writing good UIs is both hard and tedious -
any volunteers :-)

..... now back to the topic at hand.
> 
> > I'd really like a survexinclude which would import survex data from the
> > original files.  With very little reorganisation my existing data could
> > then be used with therion without change.  That might require linking
> > the survex parser into therion to implement.
> 
> The above would be by far the best option. Copying and pasting in your 
> survex data creates then two copies of survex data that can get 
> out-of-sync when you update the survex data.

OK - that's another vote. Unless any of the main authors object violently
this seems like the way to go. 


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