Very nice page! Thanks! I attached to the JIra a set of cursors that are the "nicest possible" for linux environment (I already fought against this in JGrass :)).
So you are telling me that with eclipse 3.3 the advanced graphics problem should disappear? A good reason to try it out :) Ciao Andrea Jody Garnett probaly wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > http://udig.refractions.net > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
