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From: owner-GRASSLIST@baylor.edu [mailto:owner-GRASSLIST@baylor.edu] On
Behalf Of Glynn Clements
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 5:47 AM
To: Michael Barton
Cc: William Kyngesburye; grass5@grass.itc.it; Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [GRASSLIST:10294] Re: [GRASS5] New release candidate 3 of GIS
Manager 2
Michael Barton wrote:
In most graphic programs (perhaps CAD excepted), if you select a line
tool, it is only selected until you have completed the line. It does
not stay selected to allow you to keep drawing lines. Again, this is
commonly expected behavior because it is the way that may graphic programs
work.
That isn't my experience. I find it more common for "tools" to remain active
until you explicitly select a different tool.
--
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
I agree. I just checked ArcGIS 9.0 and Gimp 2.2.10 , and the zoom/pan tools
remain active until another tool is selected. I think consistency should be
important across all zoom/pan tools in Grass. I believe all the v.digit
tools behave the same way as the 'old' pan/zoom tools in Grass, in that they
remain active until cancelled with a right click. From and end-user point of
view, this is nice because all the pan/zoom tools behaved in the same way. I
think we should try to keep that consistency amongst tools so new users
don't have to learn different zooming behavior for different tools.
~ Eric.