[Qgis-user] some impressions from my students

[Geofrey Sanders]

>This is nice, but a little annoying if you want to change the behavior
>more than often. Maybe this could be a drop-down list in the results
>dialog? So one could change the way it works more interactively.

Shouldn't the list of found features be sorted in layer order when Identify
Features is in 'top-down' mode?


Geofrey Sanders
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:11, Carlos Grohmann <carlos.grohmann at gmail.com>wrote:

> Andreas (and all), thanks for your reply, I'll pass that to my students.
>
> I've using GRASS for a few years, for my research, but now that I
> started teaching, QGIS is the way to go. The students are loving it.
> ("teach, it's sooooo much easier than ArcGIS!").
>
> As for the identify features issue:
> >
> >> Identify features: is there a way to identify one feature that's
> >> partially visible, but the layer is not selected, so I can find out to
> >> which layer it belongs?
> >
> > This is already possible. You need to change the behavior:
> >
> > Options --> MapTools --> Identify Mode --> set to "top down" or "top
> down,
> > stop at first" - depending if you want to get all hits or want to stop at
> > the first hit. You need at least QGIS 1.4 or higher.
> >
>
> This is nice, but a little annoying if you want to change the behavior
> more than often. Maybe this could be a drop-down list in the results
> dialog? So one could change the way it works more interactively.
>
> I'll keep you guys posted about the experiences of my students.
>
> best
>
> Carlos
>
>
>
>
>
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> Institute of Geosciences - Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil
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