Hi SS,

  Congrats! Sounds like a cool new tool.  How are you going to invoke it?

  If you want a wrench icon, Wrench.gif and WrenchCursor.gif are
already in the images folder.  Also BigWrench.gif.

regards,
Larry

On 9/11/07, Sunburned Surveyor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've finished writing a new selection tool for OpenJUMP. The
> SuperSelectCursorTool extends the current SelectTool and allows more
> elegant control of the tools selection behvaior. Instead of using the
> control and shift buttons to control the selection behavior the user
> will set "selection modes" using a simple toolbox.
>
> The user will now be able to create "sticky selections". In the sticky
> selection mode each mouse drag or click using the
> SuperSelectCursorTool will add to the current selected items. The only
> way to clear the selected items in this mode will be with a "clear
> selected items" button.
>
> The user will also be able to add and remove features from the same
> set of selected items at will using buttons on a toolbar.
>
> I may add support for the creation of named "selection sets" with this
> cursor tool in the future.
>
> I hope this tool will make more complex selection tasks easier for the user.
>
> By the end of the week I hope to have the following tasks accomplished:
>
> - A plug-in that creates a toolbox with a button to activate the
> SuperSelect tool, a button to control selection modes, a toggle button
> to trigger ONLY "removal from" or ONLY "addition to" the selected
> items when the SuperSelect too is used, and a button to clear the
> selected items.
>
> - Writing Javadoc comments for all public methods in the
> AbstractSelection class, the SelectTool class, and the
> FeatureSelection class.
>
> - Writing Javadoc for some of the methods in the SelectionManager class.
>
> - Refactoring of some source code in the SelectTool class, the
> AbstractSelection class, and the FeatureSelection class. ( I have
> already added some source code comments to these classes.)
>
> I have also been keeping notes on the selection code in OpenJUMP and
> will be writing a short module for a new OpenJUMP Programmer's Guide
> that expands on the material about selections in the original JUMP
> Developer's Guide and that also contains a section on selections in
> OpenJUMP for Core Programmers.
>
> After this work is complete I will return to my work testing the
> pluggable rendering system with a stand-alone text label plug-in.
>
> The Sunburned Surveyor
>
> P.S. - Do we have a common icon I can use on a button that configures
> a tool or modifies its settings? Something like a screwdriver and a
> hammer? I thought I would try to be consistent if there is an icon
> like this that others are using.
>
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