I think Matthias is correct. We should rejigger the tools to work with different types of units instead of duplicating tools.
I've looked at adding properties that get saved with the project file before (task names I think) and found it wasn't as easy as I wanted. It would be nice if we had a way to make writing custom properties to the project file a little easier. The Sunburned Surveyor On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Matthias Scholz <m...@jammerhund.de> wrote: > Hi! > > I prefer a solution with only one tool. To do that we need IMHO a > possibility to set/save/restore the unit for the projects data. Than I > can extend the new measure tool with the possibility to view the measure > result in some different units, such as meter, feet or degree. I can add > a JCombobox to select the "output unit" in the options dialog. > First we should define on which place in the GUI the user can set up the > projects unit. The value can be placed in the persistent blackboard for > automatic save and restore. > > Please correct me, if I'm wrong. > > @Peppe: > Nice idea to store the single points of a measure in a separate layer. > But some questions to do that. > - should this done with a new menu entry in the measure popup menu? > - should this done automatically, controlled by an option? > - should the layer name configurable? > - and finally, should this be a normal or a system layer? > One problem I see. Through the possibility to make multiple mesurements, > we can have more than one geometry on the measure layer. When i copy all > the points of all geometries on one layer you cannot distinguish this > points. A solution can be to save every measure in a seperate layer or > with a attribute to distinguish the measurement. > > Any suggestions are welcome :-) > > > regards > > Matthias >> wouldn't it just be a matter of selecting input and output units first? that >> should be done easily. ede >> >> >> >> On 14.02.2011 16:54, Larry Becker wrote: >> >>> Hi Peppe, >>> >>> Speaking as someone who often uses Imperial units, thanks for thinking of >>> us! I haven't updated to the latest snapshot. Did the "Measure in feet" >>> option on the bottom of the tools menu go away? >>> >>> One of the issues that I have found with any "Measure in feet" tool is >>> that it assumes your project units are meters. Of course it doesn't work >>> if your units are degrees, but the problem that confuses our users the most >>> is when the project units are feet, you can't use the "Measure in feet" >>> tool because it will do unnecessary conversion and give the wrong answer. >>> >>> regards, >>> >>> Larry >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Giuseppe Aruta <giuseppe_ar...@yahoo.it >>> <mailto:giuseppe_ar...@yahoo.it>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> I saw that the new measure tools have been substituted the original >>> tool into the last OJ Night snapshot. >>> I have a couple of proposals: >>> >>> a) Is it possible to duplicate those 2 tools, but in Feet instead of >>> Meters? >>> That means that we can have 4 tools instead of 2 (measure distance in >>> meters, measure area in meters, measure distance in feet,measure area in >>> feet). >>> That probably solves many works for people who use Imperial measure >>> system. >>> >>> b) as I can see those tools display also the relative distances between >>> points, but those distances are not saved: it would be useful to save even >>> that information on an extra layer. >>> >>> >>> regards and thanks >>> >>> Peppe >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio >>> XE: >>> Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. >>> Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. >>> Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Jump-pilot-devel mailing list >>> Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> <mailto:Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: >>> Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. >>> Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. >>> Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Jump-pilot-devel mailing list >>> Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: >> Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. >> Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. >> Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb >> _______________________________________________ >> Jump-pilot-devel mailing list >> Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: > Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. > Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. > Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. 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