On 15.03.2013 11:36, Rahkonen Jukka wrote: > Hi, > > It feels a bit odd that it is not possible to re-use existing image layers > stored into JML format in other projects simply by opening the catalog file > from user interface. I am doing similar things pretty often with Quantum GIS > and GDAL vrt files which I create with gdalbuildvrt > http://www.gdal.org/gdalbuildvrt.html
but, the obviously initially intended use, creating a multiple image layer and saving/reopen it with the current project works so far? how about absolute/relative path issues? > Image layer manager is a sketch. do you know where it stems from? >For OpenJUMP user interface it is a normal vector layer and it is possible to >insert new features by digitizing, copying from other layers and as WKT. All >those operations are useless unless user copies features from other image >layers. Fortunately nonsense features in image layer seem to lead only to >Class Not Found Exception messages in the lower left corner. we can easily prohibit editing via cursor tools or such. snapshots seem to have that already implemented. >Possibility to hand edit attributes may be useful sometimes for changing image >paths but not for anything else. And if a normal user opens a tiff file and >gets layer named "image.tif" I guess that he believes that menu option "Save >dataset as" means saving image to some other image format and not saving image >footprint into vector file. True, we should probably create sham file format (your catalog file), which in reality is merely the "special" jml. > I think that before advertising image layer tool too much we should think > what would be a good way to use this nice feature and how user interface > should support the usage. what about A/B from below? >My opinion is that the first thing to do would be to separate the image >catalogue layers somehow from the normal vector layers and make them editable >only through Image Layer Manager seems done in snapshots. >which should have more features than it has now. what are you missing exactly? is adding/removing not enough for a start? ..ede > > -Jukka- > > > edgar soldin wrote: > >> move it over to jump-devel. >> >> true, the OJ image loader works that way. >> >> a am not sure about your catalog idea though as i feel, creating a image >> collection layer once and saving it with the project should be sufficient for >> most use cases. >> >> i think: >> A. we should place the image layer manager more prominently for users to >> discover this mechanism (higher in layer context menu, add to layer menu). >> B. replace the image layer icon with a multiple images icon >> >> ..ede >> >> >> On 15.03.2013 10:14, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Add image layer is much more than another name for "Open image file" >>> but nobody knows it and the image layer system has never been >>> programmed ready. Read >>> http://latuviitta.org/documents/OpenJUMP_image_layer_tool.pdf >>> >>> Add Image Layer opens an image file but it also creates an image >>> catalogue which can hold many images. This image layer can also be >>> saved as a vector layer in Jump JML format but there is no way to open >>> such saved image catalogue because there is not such an option in >>> anywhere in the user interface. Only way to utilize the saved image >>> layer is to save also the project. >>> >>> Logical places for the "Open Image Catalog" operation would be through >>> a new button in Image Layer Manager tool and in the open Wizard as a >>> new file type "Image Catalog". It should be handled in a special way >>> because it is actually a vector file but users to not want to see the >>> footprint polygons but the mapped images. >>> >>> -Jukka Rahkonen- >>> >>> edgar.sol...@web.de wrote: >>>> On 14.03.2013 21:36, Stefan Steiniger wrote: >>>>> >>>>> About removing "File> Open File", well, having it there is fine with >>>>> me, even if it is redundant. >>>> >>>> open project and open file are the essential open mechanisms and >>>> belong under File main menu entry. this is where users are used to >>>> find it (in software generally) and expect it! >>>> >>>> add image layer is merely there because nobody found the time to >>>> write an openwizard for it. >>>> >>>> ..ede >>>> >>>> -- >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups openjump-users group. To post to this group, send email to >>>> openjump-us...@googlegroups.com. 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