In a Query Find Selection the default setting should be Pan (as this is what a find selection is). A user defined option should be added to additionally Zoom to selection.
Copy/Paste: As a default, no other operations should take place. Simply copy and paste an object without changing the map windows scale or boundaries. Two user defined options should be added to strictly Pan to the pasted object (with preserving the map scale) and additionally Zoom to the pasted object. The 8.5 Copy/Paste issue has been a burden on my cartographic work. It has definitely reduced my proficiency by adding an unnecessary step in repeatedly needing to select pervious view. Vicky Bonwick made a great point in that we need to preserve scale! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As many of you have discovered, there is a change in > the way Find > Selection is done in MI Pro 8.5. Some of you have > also discovered that > Copy/Paste has done a Find Selection for many > versions, and this > functionality has picked up the change made to Find > Selection. > > The change itself relates to how we treated single > objects. In the case > of single object selections and Find Selection, > previous to MI Pro 8.5, we > performed a pan operation but not a zoom. It is > unclear why it had been > done this way. One thing we do know is that there > is no spatial reference > to provide a zoom for a single point object. The > fact that find selection > did not work for single objects became a bug in MI > Pro 8.5, and was > "fixed". Instead of the single object check, now > there is a check to see > if the MBR of the selection is not empty. So, we > will pan for point > objects or certain other cases, such as a selection > containing multiple > coincident points. For all other cases, we will pan > and zoom. I think > this fix is valid, since it makes the Find Selection > command more > consistent. > > But, we understand your pain and we would like to do > something to address > this issue. What we are leaning towards is a > preference, or perhaps a few > preferences. Concerning how this would look, we > would like your feedback. > Here are some options, but please feel free to > provide others: > > Should we provide a preference to not perform a Find > Selection during the > copy/paste operation? > > Should we provide a preference to not perform a > Zoom, but still perform > the Pan operation of the Find Selection during the > copy/paste operation? > > Should we provide separate preferences for Zoom and > Pan (although we would > not do a Zoom without doing a Pan) for copy/paste? > This would provide more > complete control, but also increases the complexity > of the preferences > dialog and the accompanying documentation. While > the added control may be > nice, if it isn't necessary is it just getting in > the way, and not keeping > it simple? > > Particularly if we have just a "don't zoom" > preference, should Find > Selection obey this preference? Should Find > Selection have its own > preference? Or should the Query > Find Selection > always do a pan and zoom? > > One other point. We have a policy in maintenance > patch releases of not > doing any UI changes. This relates to localizing MI > Pro for different > languages - basically, we don't localize maintenance > releases. So, our > patches will upgrade any version of MI Pro, > regardless of language. So, > we can't add preferences as such in a maintenance > release. To get around > this obstacle and make it so you don't have to wait > until the next full > release to get this addressed, we can get these new > preferences out of the > registry. You add a new specific registry key, and > we will treat it as a > preference. The actual UI will be changed during > the next full release of > the product. We have used similar schemes in past > development cycles. > > Thanks for your input. To help generate discussion, > you can reply to > MapInfo-L, as I will monitor the list. > > Derek Snyder > MapInfo Corporation > > _______________________________________________ > MapInfo-L mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ MapInfo-L mailing list [email protected] http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
