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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Personally I’d think there are two bugs here, at least from a user-interface perspective, even if they’re not from a technical one:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">a)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Edits showing when editing was disabled (I’ve seen this one myself).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">b)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">No warning that the edited features hadn’t been “finished” when saving and/or when disabling editing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">(2.6 Testing indicates that disabling and then re-enabling editing while editing but not “finishing” a feature shows that you continue editing the same feature;
I’m not sure that’s very intuitive, hence item (b).)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jonathan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> qgis-developer-bounces@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:qgis-developer-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Casper Børgesen (CABO)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 10, 2014 9:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> qgis-developer<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Qgis-developer] Behaviour when create new features<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I have an inexperienced QGIS user who needed to draw some simple line strings. She created a new shapefile layer (line type), enabled editing and used the “Add Feature” button to draw a line string.
</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="DA"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">She didn’t right click to finished the feature when she was done!
</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">She saved the alterations (none because she didn’t finish the feature creation process) and disabled editing. Upon opening the layer in another QGIS instance, the feature she created was missing – obvious since she didn’t
entirely created it. </span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Why did she though that she had created it?
</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Because even though she drew the line string (without saving it) and disabled the editing, the left over line string remains visible on the screen. You cannot click it, get feature info and so on, but it appears to be
exactly where she created it.</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I don’t know if this is created as an issue but is this the expected behavior when creating and aborting new features?</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This applies to QGIS 2.4 and 2.6.</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Kind regards, Casper</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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