[Geomoose-users] Layer functions

[Bob Basques]

All, 

This seems like a reasonable approach for the Right CLick- menu, in other words, nothing can go into a Right-click menu that can't be displayed in some more obvious way as well.  Then if the implementor (or even the end user) wants to switch to "expert" mode, they have the option of doing so. 

Comments/thoughts?   


bobb 



>>> Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com> wrote:



Dan Little wrote:

>  - I tend to highly dislike right-click menus because they obscure functionality from users.

I agree but as we add more layer-specific functionality, the Catalog is going to
get too crowded with icons.  Perhaps we could let the implementor choose which
way to expose the functiosn by added a couple of properties to the <layer>:
   <layer metadata_icon=true metadata_rightclick=true ...

(or hopefully a less verbose way)


>  - GeoExt is a bad idea:
>    * Ext is another major dependencies.
>    * The dual-license of Ext would require people putting GeoMOOSE in a production environment to pay the Ext license.
>

Ahh.  I thought there was a problem with GeoExt but I couldn't recall what ....

>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
>> To: GeoMOOSE Users List <geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Sent: Mon, June 7, 2010 12:32:34 PM
>> Subject: [Geomoose-users] Layer functions
>>
>> I've been thinking about the Catalog tab, the list of layers, and layer
>> functions.
>
> Some layer functions I'd like to see:
>     (From
>> Quantum GIS:)
> - Zoom to Layer Extent
> - Zoom to best scale (for
>> raster)
> - Open Attribute Table
> - Save as Shapefile (and other
>> formats?)
> - Properties: metadata, symbology, attributes
>
>
> So some
>> questions:
> - should we consider adding more icons to the layer entries to do
>> more things?
> - should these icons be configurable (is that the intent of
>> <layer-controls>?)
> - should we move (at least some of) the icons to a
>> right-click menu?
>
> - should we adopt GeoExt to supply the Catalog
>> container/functions?
>
> Thanks!
> Brent
>> Fraser
>
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