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Shape Tools creates geodesic shapes and includes a number of geodesic tools for QGIS including the XY to Line tool, geodesic densify tool, geodesic line break, geodesic measure tool, geodesic measurement layer, geodesic scale, rotate and translate tool, and digitize points at an azimuth & distance tools.
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Minor usability improvement suggestions for Geodesic Measure Tool #46

Closed beyhh closed 2 years ago

beyhh commented 2 years ago

I keep coming back thanking the author for this wonderful plugin! Since I use the Geodesic Measure Tool almost everyday, I have two small improvement suggestions:

1) You can only measure distances as long as the "Geodesic Measure Tool" button is toggled on in the Shape Tools toolbar. It would be nice if the "Geodesic measure tool" toolbar button toggles itself on, when I press the "New" button on the small window displaying the measuring results. I frequently wonder why I cannot draw the measure line and then realize, it's because the toolbar button is not toggled on.

2) Personally, I would would find it more intuitive if pressing the right mouse button was not dropping another measuring point. Instead, the drawing process could just be ended leaving the measure line up to the last point which was set by a left mouse button click. I regularly get an extra line segment which I didn't actually want because I didn't make up my mind early enough before dropping my last measuring point (which I should have dropped with a right mouse click).

By the way, I noticed that many other toolbars show a tool tip with the toolbar name when hovering over the toolbar itself (not on a button). The Shape Tools and Lat Lon Tools do not show any tooltip. Is that only a feature of QGIS core-toolbars?

hamiltoncj commented 2 years ago

Thank you for your suggestions. I think they are all good and will add them to my to-do list. It might take several weeks because I am currently working on another problem.

hamiltoncj commented 2 years ago

@beyhh Thank you for these suggestions. I just released version 3.4.5. I think it very much improved how the Geodesic Measure Tool works. I implemented all your suggestions.

beyhh commented 2 years ago

Hey, very cool and much faster than expected! Glad you appreciate the suggestions. I also think that usability-wise it is an improvement.

Thank you so much in the name of the QGIS community!!! 👍