Jukka, I believe we definitely should not be copying features to layers that are not editable.
Can you fill out a feature request for this? Thanks. The Sunburned Surveyor On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Rahkonen Jukka <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I can see the advantage in clone and move. I think that this tool is most > useful when digitising and adding new features into that same layer. > Replicate features is clearly made for copying features from one layer into > another. That's also what I have been using it. Perhaps we will want to have > them both, even it is hard to guess the difference between clone and > replicate. But mayby only the Clone tool needs to be on the right click menu > and replicate could be only available from the Edit menu? > > Have you developers discovered that both these tools (clone and replicate) > seem to be happy with pasting features also into non-editable layers? > > -Jukka Rahkonen- > > ________________________________ > Giuseppe Aruta wrote: > Jukka, > clone items not only duplicate items but also set the copies on editing mode > and opens move-item tool: it allows users to clone and move objects on the > workbench with only one click - the regular duplicate item doesn't have > these capabilities. It has some possible usages, cloning object used for > point simbology or duplicate buildings which have the same shape. I rather > use more this Clone Tool for my maps than the regular Duplicate one - but > this is my point of view, more than this I made that tool. > Regarding your second question, I will try to find a solution. Note that > probabily Replicate Item tool has the same behaviour (I will give a test, > too) > > Giuseppe > > ________________________________ > Da: Rahkonen Jukka <[email protected]> > A: 'OpenJump develop and use' <[email protected]> > Inviato: Lunedì 23 Gennaio 2012 10:08 > Oggetto: [JPP-Devel] Difference between right click Clone items and > replicate-selected-items? > > Hi, > > There are two tools in the right click menu which seem to almost the same > thing. Clone items does not ask anything, it just clones. Are there other > meaningful differences. > > I notices that if I have selected items from many layers the Clone items is > cloning them all into one of the selected layers. It seems to be usually the > layer that is highest on the layer legend but not always. Because the > behaviour is not easy to predict, would it be better to make this tool > usable only if user has exactly one editable layer selected? > > -Jukka Rahkonen- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try before you buy = See our experts in action! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try before you buy = See our experts in action! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
