Re: [udig-devel] Editing question - selecting overlapping polygons

[Matthew Perry <perrygeo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jesse,

  I like the idea of tabbing between the two. Click once then tab will
loop through all the polygons at that location. That would be my
preference anyway.

matt

On 2/9/06, Jesse Eichar <jeichar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rather you select the first polygon returned by the feature reader...
> An excellent point here.  I have no idea how this should be handled but
> am open to suggestions...
>
> Ideas:
>
> 1.  Tab between the two?
> 2.  Second click will select the second?
> 3.  Other idea?
>
> Jesse
>
> Matthew Perry wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> >  Continuing on my editing adventures with 1.1M3...
> >
> >  I've got a single layer with overlapping polygons and some are even
> > entirely contained within another polgyon. When I try to select the
> > contained polygon with the editing tool, I always end up selecting the
> > larger polygon no matter where I click.
> >
> >  Any ideas on how to get the edit tool to select the proper polygon? I
> > can't delete the larger polygon but is there any way to filter it out
> > so that the editing tool does not try to select it?
> >
> >  Thanks for any advice,
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