I think Jukka's renaming proposals are valid. Any other comments? Landon
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Rahkonen Jukka <jukka.rahko...@mmmtike.fi> wrote: > Hi, > > OpenJUMP has a term "item" which is not the same as "feature". For example > inner ring of a polygon is an item but not a feature. It seems that our > copy/paste/replicate tools are handling these items which are not features in > a bit different way. > - Create a polygon with a hole, select inner ring with the Select linestring > tool > - Replicate item is replicating the feature > - Copy selected items - Paste items is copying just the hole > > Same happens with multipolygons if only one part is selected. Replicate > multiplies the whole multipolygon, copy-paste is copying only the selected > part of the multipolygon. > > The behaviour of the replicate tool is probably correct because it makes > sense that replicate creates an exact copy of something. However, perhaps > more exact name for the tool would be "Replicate selected features". What it > really does is "replicate features with selected items" but it is rather long > as a menu entry. > Also the tools named as "Select Items by Circle from Selected Layers" and > "Select Items by Fence from Selected Layers" could perhaps be renamed to > "Select Features by Circle from Selected Layers" and "Select Features by > Polygon from Selected Layers". The latter tool is really awaiting that user > draws a freehand polygon for doing the selection and it is not possible to > select items like inner rings with these tools, they always select whole > features. > > -Jukka Rahkonen- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
