On 3-Feb-07, at 10:08 AM, Adrian Custer wrote: > Hey all, > > > RC9 unofficial runs well on this GNU install (linux/X/Gnome on intel > i386 centrino). Jesse (and all the others), it looks like you have > done > very good work, thanks. > > Below are quick thoughts to consider as you see fit; I'm sure you know > about most of these and some are long term issues so this is just a > brainstorm: > > (for uDig) > > Where's the measurement tool?
It is one of the information tools (under the i tool) > > Why does the zoom tool look like such garbage (big cross > with a > non-descript, wanna be magnifying glass below)? Ibid for the > other tools (info tool is half black, half white, all junky). > It is because the icons and the Icon API was designed for windows and platform dependence caught me. Its in the bug tracker. > The map graphics obviously need work: In a word: yes > 1) the grid style info makes no sense: x,y relative to > what? what kind of width? A user probably wants the > grid > on degree lines or every xkms vertically and > horizontally. For non mercator projections, does the > 'grid' stay orthogonal or is it a real map grid? > 2) the legend shows the visible layers also shown > in the > "layers' view. Perhaps, for clarity, the map graphics > layers should have a different look in the layers view > so that this parallism is more 'natural'. Could the > map > graphics be shown on a slightly grey background to > distinguish 'map' layers from 'graphic' layers? > > 2.2) the legend view takes the size of the layers > in the > map but only shows the visible layers so it's much too > big with a blank empty spot below when they are layers > in the layer view that are not being displayed. > > 2.3) the legend view should not zoom with the map zoom > but stay put (and it will not change with that > operation). Ibid with a pan operation. > > 2.4) the legend view should disappear on mouse over > with > an editing tool (or it is visually in the way even > if it > doesn't physically interfere with the edit). > > Making a new layer to serve as a bounding box for zoom > requires > that the edit tool allow us to (1) draw vertical and > horizontal > lines and (2) match up the end point with the start point. For > the latter, the first three points of a rectangle can be built > with a way to draw only horizontal and vertical lines, however > the fourth point needs to be placed in reference to the first > point. The 'shift-' or 'ctrl-' key should help us draw > vert/horizontal lines. Very good point. I've added a jira for this. > Letting users close the rectangle is > harder since they have to find the place to click exactly > opposite the original click: perhaps the 'polygon' tool should > show the closing segment, perhaps the 'ctrl' key should act > like > a 'snap to grid' tool based on a grid built from the original > point (so a user will easily see the point exactly matched > with > the original), or ...? > You can double click to close a polygon also the vertex changes color when mouse is over the end vertex to assist in determining when you can click. > > Selection in the table view: it's getting better, cool! > > 'ctrl-' or 'shift-' + 'mouse drag' should add to the > selection rather than having all selections replace > the > existing set. Jira made > > Select two layers in the layers view then, drag > mouse on > the screen: leads to selection only of the features in > the topmost layer. The user needs some feedback that > uDig is doing something weird, maybe just a warning in > the status bar "Warning: multiple layers with > different > attributes selected, selection will act only of top > layer features". A user should see relatively quickly > what has happened but, because they might expect > something different, uDig should have a standard > way to > give feedback (and a pop up dialog seems heavy). > Similarly, if multiple selected layers have the same > attribute set, they can be displayed in the same > table. > I'll address this sort of issues in reply to Gabriel's email. Thanks for the feedback. Jesse > > > (for uDig and Geotools/Simone) > > uDig now has a 'web catalog' view that gives a list of WMS and WFS > sources! VERY COOL. It's what new users want and works very nicely so > congrats on the hard work. > > Obviously, this still needs to be improved. For example, panning > half a > screen over current discards the currently visible tile right away and > requests a whole new tile. uDig should keep the 'tile' of the existing > background image and keep showing it until the new request has been > fulfilled. > > However, it seems like Simone can lead us to bigger and better things. > Simone, when uDig eventually integrates your work, will it be possible > to make a set of structured requests of the WMS to build a temporary > image pyramid to improve user responsiveness. A user has at most > 2000x2000 pixels on their screen. The base request should be for > whatever area of interest (extent and scale) the map has when the user > adds the layer to the map (or makes it visible). However, once that > request is fulfilled, couldn't uDig start building an image pyramid on > the fly so that whatever the user does next (pan, zoom) uDig would > have > the data. We can see immediately that there are a whole slew of issues > that arise in designing such a background pyramid building. Is this > something some of you have been pondering? > > > Thanks again for all the work on RC9, > --adrian > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, > security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your > job easier. > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache > Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? > cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? 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