[Qgis-user] some impressions from my students

[Carson Farmer]

Hi Geofrey,

+1 from me on this one... though I think there have been reasons given
in the past as to why this is not the case?

Carson

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Geofrey Sanders
<geofrey at weathercall.net> wrote:
>>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
> WeatherCall Customer Care
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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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