mhm.. reminds me a bit on how cadcorp presents selected features, which was very much valued by me. And the area/length feature info is something which i also have on my todo list since a year (but put it on a lower priority since we have an improved mouse-over-info-tool by Larry).
Cadcorp has 4 tabs on the left (where we have the layer tree) and one can switch between the layer view and some other views (e.g. a feature info view, a thematic map view). In dependence of the geometry type it also displays area/length/centroid coorddinates/number of vertices. If the layer is editable then one can also edit the feature values. like Larry and David I think all this tools are more or less easily doable (not speaking of the tab) - but at least I currently have not the time in the next weeks to work on something like that. for now one should at least open a feature request on sourceforge stefan Martin Davis schrieb: > Both excellent ideas, Jukka. I've thought about both of these myself as > well... > > I think a nice way to provide #1 would be to enhance the HTML View in > the Feature Info window to compute and display the area and length for > each feature which is displayed. This should be an easy enhancement to > make. Would this meet your need? > > Larry's point about the Tooltips may also meet #1 (although is the > tooltip always guaranteed to provide this information? In some cases > they may be customized to show something different, right? ). Anyway, > doesn't hurt to have this information provided in more than one place. > > As for #2, I think this is also a very good idea. We could perhaps use > the old MS Access UI as an inspiration. In it you could display a table > in either a grid view (like JUMP does now) or in a "Sheet" view, which > displayed one record at a time with the fields laid out vertically. A > navigation control was provided to move between records. This seems > like it would be a nifty thing to have available, in both the Attribute > View window and the Feature Info window. It shouldn't be *too* hard to > do - you would have to autogenerate a Swing layout for the fields, but > Jon's nifty dialog generation API shows how to do that pretty easily. > I think the actual geometry should probably not be displayed as part of > the fields, but the usual View/Edit button can be provided on the panel. > Area & Length could be shown too, as non-editable fields. > Perhaps some other geometry metadata would be useful as well, such as > number of vertices, number of components, number of holes, etc. (the > same info as shown in the Feature Stats layer) > > Larry, I don't see the layout of large numbers of fields as a problem. > The panel can simply be allowed to scroll. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
