Hi Jody,
Thanks for the information.
What I believe we need is a true composite so groups can be put underneath
groups, not just one level with foreground and background., i.e. we would like
to nest the composite controls.
I was thinking of making a group be “named” and a
manifestation/exposure/association of a Composite Renderer – but I see your
point about not doing so.
Grouping in a Legend view makes a lot of sense because it is separate from
Z-order and we can surely write code to turn the composite children on and off.
The children of the composite in this view being either another composite or a
layer. Thanks for the suggestion.
We will have to dig into the table of contents view in the community section,
and do some evaluation and perhaps explore these ideas and suggestions further.
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We have also been developing for 18 months now and have some code changes that
we would like to contribute back to the udig code-base, so we are wondering
what is the process we should go through to have them evaluated for inclusion?
Regards,
Ralph
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Subject: Re: [udig-devel] Composite layer control for Layer View
Hi Ralph:
There is an experimental "table of contents" view that you can look at for
ideas in the community section.
The layers view is intended to be a simple reflection of draw order; I would
prefer to see a "legend" view created that allowed you to group layers as you
indicate in your email. There have been a number of suggestions about how all
of that can work; one of the ones I like the most is to mark some layers as
"background" (and not list them in the legend view") and in a similar manner
take the "decorations" (and not display them in the legend view by default).
So this is a common request; one that several development teams have tackled to
their satisfaction (usually taking about two weeks to a month each depending on
the approach). Thus far a good solution has not been provided back to the core
udig platform.
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Jody Garnett
On Saturday, 25 June 2011 at 11:36 PM, Ralph B Holland wrote:
Hi,
We are running with over 15 related data sources, and we plan to use more, and
the Layer View is becoming large.
I am wondering if a composite group layer control has been included in a
subsequent release of udig?
What we would like is to do is to be able to group several layers together
under a composite group control that could be expanded or closed down in a
similar fashion to the + or – paradigm seen in other applications.
Thanks.
Regards,
Ralph Holland,
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