[udig-devel] How to call some modal tool programmatically?

[Jesse Eichar]

This is a strange little area,  The recommended way right now is to do:

IToolManager manager=ApplicationGIS.getToolManager();
IAction action = manager.getTool( neededToolID );
action.run();

A couple of notes about this:

1.  getTool() will be deprecated because it is misnamed.  I am  
renaming it to getToolAction()
2.  The run method will disable the active tool and will enable the  
new tool.

Jesse


On Apr 4, 2007, at 6:29 AM, Sergiy Doroshenko wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> The question is how to activate some tool from the code. For example,
> click on some button will activate DistanceTool - its icon will be
> shown on toolbar, its cursor will be shown.
> I tried to do like this:
> 				((AbstractModalTool) ApplicationGIS.getToolManager()
> 						.getActiveTool()).setActive(false);
> 				SimpleTool select = (SimpleTool) ApplicationGIS
> 						.getToolManager().findTool(
> 								nededToolID);
> 				select.setActive(true);
>
> But this code doesn't update toolbar and cursor; and when we select
> another tool from toolbar, the tool that was activated in that code
> remains active. So, this is wrong.
>
> Can you describe me rigth way to activate tool?
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