Re: [JPP-Devel] Copying Features To Another Layer

2007-09-13 Thread Michaƫl Michaud
>and i think it is time that you start studying OJ functions, e.g. replicate! > > Hey, I never noticed this nice feature. Thanks ! (so many useful features in OpenJUMP :-) ) >Sunburned Surveyor schrieb: > > >>My SuperSelect Tool will have a button that allows the user to copy >>selected featu

Re: [JPP-Devel] Copying Features To Another Layer

2007-09-13 Thread Martin Davis
This tool seems useful to me. It is a bit of a pain to have to do all those steps each time you want to extract some geometry. One question. If the geometries are going to a new layer, why wouldn't you always create the new layer with the appropriate Feature Schema and copy all the attributes

Re: [JPP-Devel] Copying Features To Another Layer

2007-09-13 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Thank you Stefan and Larry for the comments. I will try to find the code for the "replicate" function. I don't think I have a case of featurititis. (At least I hope not.) The Super Select tool was designed to solve a specific problem I was having. I was trying to select large sets of LineStrings

Re: [JPP-Devel] Copying Features To Another Layer

2007-09-13 Thread Larry Becker
> and i think it is time that you start studying OJ functions, e.g. replicate! Stefan is right. SuperSelect was a good idea, but it now sounds like it has featurititis. Before you develop, you should know what is already implemented so as not to duplicate functionality. Larry On 9/13/07, Stefa

Re: [JPP-Devel] Copying Features To Another Layer

2007-09-13 Thread Stefan Steiniger
see my previous answer.. and i think it is time that you start studying OJ functions, e.g. replicate! Sunburned Surveyor schrieb: > My SuperSelect Tool will have a button that allows the user to copy > selected features to a designated layer with a single click. > > I was wondering, were there a

[JPP-Devel] Copying Features To Another Layer

2007-09-12 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
My SuperSelect Tool will have a button that allows the user to copy selected features to a designated layer with a single click. I was wondering, were there any guidlines or rules about the copying process? Do I need to wrap it in an undoable command? Can I copy features from one layer to another