[udig-devel] FAQs?

[Jesse Eichar]

Just a hint for getting some information.  Use the edit tool and view  
the selected item in the table view.  This doesn't work for WMS but  
it will work for any feature based layer.

Jesse
On May 1, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Peter N. Schweitzer wrote:

> Richard Gould wrote:
>> Have a look at this link here:
>> http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#browserlinux
>> Hope that helps. I have not had success with getting it to work
>> with Firefox, but it works with the Mozilla Suite without a problem.
>
> Richard,
>
> Thanks, that works.  I installed seamonkey-1.0.8 from Slackware 11
> patches, set MOZILLA_HOME to /usr/lib/seamonkey, logged off and back
> on again, and uDig now uses seamonkey to show its help.  Whew!
>
> I'm still mystified by the missing information view--what I want to
> do is click on a polygon and have some display of that polygon's
> attributes.  I can select the 'i' from the toolbar and choose  
> "Info" from its drop-down menu, the cursor changes to a small arrow  
> with
> the letter 'i' below it, but when I click something, there is no
> response, no activity at all.  I make sure that the layer I'm  
> interested
> in (a poly layer) is active in the Layer view.  And I get no error
> messages in the .log file.  Am I thinking of this incorrectly?
>
> Peter
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