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Ticket #800 (closed enhancement: fixed)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 7 months ago

Request for change in the ajax viewer - legend with selectability

Reported by: bscott Assigned to:
Priority: medium Milestone: 2.1
Component: AJAX Viewer Version: 2.0.2
Severity: trivial Keywords:
Cc: External ID:

Description

Motivation Selection is something very centric in many custom applications. So it must be fast and easy to use. It is sometimes pretty difficult to select point features or to select many polygons object when there is other polygons under them.

So i would like to propose to add a new icon in the legend to be able to toggle the selectability of each layers.

There's a nabble thread http://www.nabble.com/Request-for-change-in-the-ajax-viewer---legend-with-selectability-td20837203.html

Attachments

patch _selectability_icons.zip (1.1 kB) - added by bscott on 12/17/08 03:53:31.
patch_selectability.patch (4.6 kB) - added by bscott on 12/17/08 04:51:09.

Change History

12/17/08 03:53:31 changed by bscott

  • attachment patch _selectability_icons.zip added.

12/17/08 04:51:09 changed by bscott

  • attachment patch_selectability.patch added.

03/26/09 09:58:28 changed by jng

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

Fixed in r3764. Thanks for the patch Bruno, this is really useful!

03/30/09 12:46:39 changed by tomfukushima

I agree that this is a nice fix, but after looking at the screen cap in the discussion above it seems that the "arrow icon" added above is not very intuitive (i.e., I don't see the visual affordance for what it does). Or is that icon pretty standard and I'm not aware of it?

03/30/09 18:36:00 changed by jng

You mean the "arrow icon" doesn't really convey that the layer is selectable/not selectable?

07/17/09 13:16:04 changed by tomfukushima

Sorry for the late response... yes, that is what I am saying. Let's put this in front of some of our users and see what they think. Have we done this?

07/17/09 13:19:35 changed by tomfukushima

I should be more specific...let's put it in front of some of our viewer users...in the worst case, these are those who only know how to browse the web and might have used Google maps and some other Internet applications. My guess is that they will be confused by this icon if it is presented.

Maybe we need a way to turn it off (that is, don't display it)?