RE: [Qgis-developer] advanced selection tools (r14071)

2010-08-17 Thread Jeremy Palmer
[mailto:a.neum...@carto.net] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 8:10 PM To: Jeremy Palmer Cc: Marco Hugentobler; qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] advanced selection tools (r14071) Hi Jeremy! Thanks for the discussion - and thanks for developing the improved selection tools. I

Re: [Qgis-developer] advanced selection tools (r14071)

2010-08-14 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Jeremy! Thanks for the discussion - and thanks for developing the improved selection tools. I understand that this is a matter of personal preference. May I suggest that there could be a global setting to set the preferred behavior? In the Options dialogue there are settings for the "Ident

RE: [Qgis-developer] advanced selection tools (r14071)

2010-08-13 Thread Jeremy Palmer
Hi Marco and Andreas et al, I agree there could be some confusion for existing QGIS users. However many applications that I have come from such as MapInfo and mapobjects which have these selection tools use the contains method. While it all depends on your point of view, I believe these applic

Re: [Qgis-developer] advanced selection tools (r14071)

2010-08-13 Thread John C. Tull
On Aug 13, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote: > All in all I am a little concerned that the selection tools take up too > much screen space - which brings us back to the discussion - why don't we > introduce drop-down buttons for selection mode? +1 __

Re: [Qgis-developer] advanced selection tools (r14071)

2010-08-13 Thread John C. Tull
On Aug 13, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote: > All in all I am a little concerned that the selection tools take up too > much screen space - which brings us back to the discussion - why don't we > introduce drop-down buttons for selection mode? +1 John

Re: [Qgis-developer] advanced selection tools (r14071)

2010-08-13 Thread Andreas Neumann
> The advanced selection tools are really great! yes - they are cool > > Just two suggestions: wouldn't it be more intuitive to select all the > intersecting features if no key is pressed and select only the contained > features if key modifier pressed? Currently, it is the other way round, so >