[Qgis-user] zoom to point/edit point coordinates

Carson Farmer carson.farmer at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 08:42:56 PST 2008


Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 14:47 +0000, Carson Farmer wrote:
>   
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I prefer your idea because your way a user could just keep entering
>>> coordinate pairs to build up a feature without any need for mouse
>>> clicks. Since docs can be stacked / tabbed it neednt consume a lot of
>>> screen real estate. The disadvantage of your idea is that we would
>>> need to implement the concept of a selected vertex probably...
>>>   
>>>       
>> You might not need to, for example, you setup the following:
>>  If a vertex is selected, the 'apply' button would read 'adjust vertex', 
>> otherwise, it would read 'add vertex'.
>>
>> This way it becomes both a new vertex and change vertex tool!
>>     
>
> Right but that was the implied behaviour already from the discussion
> above - the issue more relates to the fact that you cant 'highlight' /
> select a vertex (only a whole feature), which means its difficult to
> know which vertex should be affected when you click 'adjust vertex'. Of
> course aforementioned applies only to line / polygon layers, with point
> layers the problem doesnt exist.
>
>   
Right, I forgot you couldn't select individual vertex'... Too much 
inkscape I guess... ;-)

C



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