A selected feature (from any view) is supposed to flash on the current map. It was initially used when sifting through search results, to show where they were located).
So while this is "by design" I can understand if it was confusing. -- Jody Garnett On Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 9:53 AM, Emily Gouge wrote: > I found a problem with the feature flasher (for flashing feature from > the info view) if the user has multiple maps open. To reproduce: > > 1) Create two maps and open both of them > 2) Add the same layer to both maps. > 3) Use the info tool and click on a feature. > 4) In the Information view click on the feature to cause it to flash. > This works okay. > 5) Click on the feature again to start the flashing, but before it > finished flashing (you have to be quick) open the other map you created > (hiding the current one). > At this point if you go back to the first map the feature will be > highlighted in dark yellow and feature flashing will no longer work on > any maps. > > I tracked this down to a problem with the AnimationUpdater in that it > never allows the animation to finish if the map is hidden while it is > still running. This in turn cause additional problems. > > From what I can determine there are two potential solutions to this > problem: > 1) allow the animation to finish playing even after the map is hidden > 2) stop & clean up the animation and remove it when the map is hidden > > Any comments? I will provide a fix if I can get some guidelines on when > to cleanup the animations if the maps are hidden. > > Emily > > > _______________________________________________ > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > http://udig.refractions.net > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > >
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