Hi Geofrey, +1 from me on this one... though I think there have been reasons given in the past as to why this is not the case?
Carson On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Geofrey Sanders <[email protected]> wrote: >>This is nice, but a little annoying if you want to change the behavior >>more than often. Maybe this could be a drop-down list in the results >>dialog? So one could change the way it works more interactively. > > Shouldn't the list of found features be sorted in layer order when Identify > Features is in 'top-down' mode? > > > Geofrey Sanders > WeatherCall Customer Care > [email protected] > voicemail: 1 (800) 260-6695 > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:11, Carlos Grohmann <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Andreas (and all), thanks for your reply, I'll pass that to my students. >> >> I've using GRASS for a few years, for my research, but now that I >> started teaching, QGIS is the way to go. The students are loving it. >> ("teach, it's sooooo much easier than ArcGIS!"). >> >> As for the identify features issue: >> > >> >> Identify features: is there a way to identify one feature that's >> >> partially visible, but the layer is not selected, so I can find out to >> >> which layer it belongs? >> > >> > This is already possible. You need to change the behavior: >> > >> > Options --> MapTools --> Identify Mode --> set to "top down" or "top >> > down, >> > stop at first" - depending if you want to get all hits or want to stop >> > at >> > the first hit. You need at least QGIS 1.4 or higher. >> > >> >> This is nice, but a little annoying if you want to change the behavior >> more than often. Maybe this could be a drop-down list in the results >> dialog? So one could change the way it works more interactively. >> >> I'll keep you guys posted about the experiences of my students. >> >> best >> >> Carlos >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Prof. Carlos Henrique Grohmann - Geologist D.Sc. >> Institute of Geosciences - Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil >> http://www.igc.usp.br/pessoais/guano >> Linux User #89721 >> ________________ >> Can’t stop the signal. >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > -- Carson J. Q. Farmer ISSP Doctoral Fellow National Centre for Geocomputation National University of Ireland, Maynooth, http://www.carsonfarmer.com/ _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
