[Geomoose-users] Behaving Properly with Multiple Tools

[Brent Fraser]

Dan,

  Can't GeoMoose just stop the Add Polygon operation if another command 
is selected?  I don't like having to create a tool (or tools?) for each 
editable layer.  What am I missing?

Best Regards,
Brent Fraser

On 12/4/2012 6:29 AM, Dan Little wrote:
> GeoMOOSE has a problem.  It tries to let users do a lot of things 
> that, ultimately, will cause them harm.
>
> The Scenario
> ---------------------
> A user is going along identifying things.  Then they decide to add a 
> Polygon to the map.  Then they want to identify things again, so they 
> simply return to the identify tab.
>
> The application fundamentally breaks here.  It will try to draw 
> polygons and identify things at the same time.  This isn't a problem 
> if the user were to, once again, click the "Identify" tool from the 
> toolbar.
>
>
> There are variations on this tune but the underlaying question to it 
> all is, how should we be defining the users verb focus?  And how do we 
> do it in a consistent predictable manner?
>
> Some thoughts:
> 1. When switching to any tool, any "service tabs" close.  That means, 
> the users' ability to add a polygon would close the "identify" tab. 
>  Removing the users ability to go after the tab.  This has the 
> negative consequence of not being able to refer to your results for as 
> long or allow the results to interact with other tools.
>
> 2. The root of these problems seem connected with some lack of 
> consistency with drawing.  The vector layers are 
> handled separately from the layers that are used as "temp drawing 
> layers" for the services.  We could move the drawing and editing tools 
> into a "tab" so that instead of doing things like "Add Polygon", the 
> user would click a button like "Edit Vector Layer" or "Add Sketches" 
> and it would open a service-like tab that would give all of the layer 
> editing options.  The may mean creating a tool for each vector layer 
> the user wants to have editable.
>
> Anyone with other thoughts? Solutions? Patches?
>
> PS: I'm sorry if this shows up as a duplicate, I sent this email 
> yesterday afternoon and it didn't appear to show up on the list.
>
>
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