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Re: [udig-devel] Layer Selection vs Current Layer
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Hey all,
I'm a bit lost as well and still sipping the morning brew...
As part of my "Geospatial operations" workflow, I imagine the user
starts by selecting the "Geospatial data" they want to work with. I
imagine this happens by users selecting a Map to work with and
subselecting some the elements of the map by choosing:
- 1 or more "Layers" in the "Layers" view (using shift or ctrl
to select several layers).
- 1 or more selection areas on the Map (using bounding boxes
(shift) or more generally a filter of some kind (by hand/gui)).
That's the selection I'm about to go after. So far things look broken.
The "Selection" view shows all the elements in the top selected layer of
the "Layers" view no matter what the "Filter" element says in the
"Selection" view. Also, the Filter bounding box only acts on the top
layer selected in the "Layers" view for highlighting elements in the
"Map" graphical view.
So is my intuitive feel for how to select "Geospatial resources" wrong?
cheers,
adrian
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 11:48 +0200, Jody Garnett wrote:
> M.S.Bachler wrote:
> > OK,
> >
> > I have not had my morning cup of tea yet, and am a bit lost.
> > Lets simplify things for my brain.
> >
> > Q: How can I get the 'Selection View' to change it's contents to match
> > the currently selected layer?
> >
> I hear you, and I think what Jesse "fixed" will work.
>
> My point was that the Selection View is not what many of the other views
> are "watching" and listening to.
> They are watching the user, and will notice if the user has selected a
> layer on the selection view, or on the
> projects view, or on a custom "legend view" you made up yourself.
>
> Sorry if that is not a helpful response :-( Let me try again ...
>
> If you changed the current selection of the map via Java code the
> Selection view should update.
> However that will only change the workbench selection (ie what the user
> is looking at) if the
> Selection view is the "active" part.
>
> If the user was looking at a Feature (if a FeatureEditor), changing the
> currently selected layer
> would not have an effect for example.
>
> Jody
>
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