Thanks Larry, Michael, Martin and others, the ideas and concepts brought out are great!
Since I'm planning this feature for my highly customized application on top of OJ, what I'm thinking doing is less than generic as I wish: 1. The Bookmarks view will probably in a dockable window since my application is using MyDoggy docking system. 2. The bookmarks are classified as either private or public and will persist in a database. 3. Bookmarks carries owner names. My application is an enterprise tool and requires logging in. 4. Public bookmarks are shared across multiple users. 5. Bookmarks have title, comments and tags so they can be searched and categorized. This feature can be built on top of a generic bookmarking mechanism if available in OJ, particularly the bookmarks layer management and local persistence. I'm not sure how soon I'll be able to starting doing the work. Flicker-less panning still high on my to-do list (if anyone remembers my first ever email to the list ). If someone would do a generic one in some time soon, I'd be more than happy to continue with that. Bing From: Larry Becker Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:38 AM To: OpenJump develop and use Subject: Re: [JPP-Devel] bookmark I agree that storing bookmark views in a layer is probably the best solution for the reasons already stated. Further suggestions are: 1. The Save Bookmark menu option should be on the View menu. 2. The view geometry stored should be inflated by the appropriate amount so that browsing it in View/Edit Attributes will restore the original view (where normally there is some context border). 3. The view name should be the only attribute. It should probably be assigned in a dialog when you choose Save Bookmark with a suitable default name such as "View 1". 4. It would be nice if the bookmark dataset path/file-type defaulted to the same pathname as the project file with "_bookmark.jml" appended or something like that so that all you would have to do is save it and the project. JML file type seems like the best choice. 5. The bookmark layer should default to not selectable and not visible. 6. Anything else is gravy... my 2 cents, Larry On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Michael Michaud <michael.mich...@free.fr> wrote: Martin Davis a écrit : > In RoadMatcher we created something we called an Issues List. The idea > was that you could either select a feature or draw a box around an area, > and then mark it as an issue (with a state, title, comment, datestamp, > etc). Issues were actually just a special named layer. We had a modeless > dialog which looked like the Attribute View to let you zoom to issues, > sort them, mark them as done, etc.) > Storing bookmarks as any other layer seems like a good idea (easy to store, to share...) > Fancier and less general than the Bookmarks idea. Bookmarks sound like a > great idea. > > What is the scope of Bookmarks? Local to a single Task Frame (um - OJ > Project Frame?) The entire OJ instance? Would they be persisted and if > so how? > > I quite liked the pattern of exposing things like this as a layer in the > Layer List (e.g the way the Fence works). Then users can use any > relevant tools directly on that layer. Basically then Bookmarks would > just be a special tool to create a Bookmark layer feature, and perhaps > (probably?) a UI dialog to allow friendly navigation around bookmarks > (although even this might not be needed - the Attribute View could serve > just as well for this. > I think a special user interface dedicated to bookmark navigation would be welcome (should be as easy as navigating in firefox bookmarks) The special Tool to create the bookmark feature should create a rectangle fitting the layerview to memorize position and scale (and could create the layer if it does not exist yet) A convention in the bookmark name could even help creating a hierarchical navigator (with '/' for example) My 2 cents > M > > Bing Ran wrote: > >> Hi, >> I'm thinking adding bookmarking to enable quick navigating to >> interesting points on a map. >> - point to a location on a map and issue "bookmark this point" without >> any feature selected, add comment, and it's saved in a bookmarks view. >> - select any feature and bookmark it. >> - without selecting anything, simply bookmark a zoom. >> Has anyone done something similar? >> Bing >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. >> It is the best place to buy or sell services for >> just about anything Open Source. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Jump-pilot-devel mailing list >> Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. 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