[udig-devel] Random comments on thursday's RC13 snapshot

[Jesse Eichar]

On 10-Jan-08, at 2:53 AM, Adrian Custer wrote:

> hey all,
>
> Don't bother to respond unless you need clarification; I realize  
> some of
> these issues you already know about. This is merely a 'quick-and-dirty
> impressions on using the software' kind of note.
>
> 1) Absolute paths are being treated correctly in the catalog, good.
>
> 2) but relative paths are being displayed as absolute---not sure the
> consequences for portability.
>

This is just what is displayed in the Catalog the relative path is  
what is actually stored on disk.

> 3) "Add to new map" doesn't consider the .prj files of the layers =>  
> the
> map is always displayed using WGS84.

I think this must be because you are using an old workspace try  
updating the default Map CRS Preference to be -1.  The preference is  
under WIndow>Preferences;  Project>Map

>
>
> 4) Selection doesn't take into account the layers selected in the  
> layers
> view but only uses the 'last clicked on layer' or some similar  
> semantic
> in that view. I would expect the selection to happen against several
> layers at once but perhaps our selection mechanism is limited.

Yes.  :)  Its not the best but changing that behaviour is a very big  
task and won't be addressed for a little while.  I am aware of this  
but thanks for bringing it back up.

>
>
> 5) AAARRRRG, the style beeps are back. I like the style view much  
> better
> than the dialog (not the functionality but the workflow is faster).  
> I'm
> getting lots of beeps moving back and forth between them.
>

I have not been able to figure out what the story is with that.  It is  
some odd SWT bug that I can't figure out.

Thanks for the feedback.

Jesse