That is fun ... I just finished rewording the end of that page into a
FAQ and then read your email :-)
- http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/EN/Running+uDig
Well I agree, I think the problem I encounter as a user (not yet
a developer) is that there isn't any place to compile questions
with or without answers. FAQs are really wonderful things, if they're
kept well. It is much harder to glean answers to questions from the
archives of the developers' email list. This is why I asked whether
there's an overall plan for user documentation.
I do not even know how to disable advanced graphics ... can someone
tell me so we can make this paragraph useful? I join the author in
asking "what is going on".
Ah, this one is pretty easy. At startup the first time, uDig shows
you a dialog that you can use to disable advanced graphics, and it
suggests that you might want to do it. After that time, you can
disable (or re-enable) advanced graphics using a check box in
Window > Preferences > uDig UI. This seems to work: the zoom box gets
a degree of transparency when advanced graphics are enabled and is
opaque when advanced graphics are disabled.
But I agree that it would be good to have a little more background
info on this issue written up somewhere. I have only a superficial
understanding of it. I can say "advanced graphics" but I don't know
what it means here.
I wrote down my guess on the FAQ and linked to the only bug report that
looked even close :-(
Can you send me a screen snap of that dialog box for the documentation
please :-)
Instructions are good; instructions with explanations are better ;-)
Fair enough - and boy am I glad it is a wiki.
My point about users is that they can help you, and you don't get
that benefit if you only talk to developers. Users won't know what
"eclipse" is and arguably don't need to know. I'm only dimly aware of
it, yet the answers to some of my questions are in its documentation.
I'm suggesting that this is not desirable in the long term.
and I still can't get an info window--sure would be nice to click on
a feature and see its attributes.
I see - did you install Mozilla?
Jody
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