"Node tool" should remember last feature which it was used on after switching to other tools and returning

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Author Name: Maxim Dubinin (@simgislab)
Original Redmine Issue: 2241

Redmine category:digitising
Assignee: Martin Dobias

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Any layer

Start editing, select editing nodes tool,click on object - nodes show up

Switch to zoom - nodes disappear

So need to zoom, select tool, click on object, zoom ....etc. Rather inconvinient!

Note that if object is selected, nodes don't dissappear, so may be we need to select object when clicked with node editing tool, so navigating will note loose node view.

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• Screenshot.png (Giovanni Manghi)

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Confirmed also under linux, but in my case (both linux and windows) the node tool markers disappear when selecting the zoom tool, even if the feature is selected. Zooming with the mouse wheel seems to have no side effects.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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More interesting notes on this issue:

*) "pan map" tool -> node tool markers disappear

*) "zoom in"/"zoom out" tools -> node tool markers disappear

*) "zoom full"/"zoom to layer" -> node tool markers stay put

*) selecting another layer in the legend -> node tool markers disappear

*) "zoom to selection" -> node tool markers stay put

*) "select features" tool -> node tool markers disappear

and finally

*) "zoom last"/"zoom next" tools -> node tool markers stay put but they are NOT redesigned so they show int he wrong place with the wrong scale.

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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Replying to [comment:2 lutra]:

More interesting notes on this issue:
*) "pan map" tool -> node tool markers disappear

*) "zoom in"/"zoom out" tools -> node tool markers disappear

*) "zoom full"/"zoom to layer" -> node tool markers stay put

*) selecting another layer in the legend -> node tool markers disappear

*) "zoom to selection" -> node tool markers stay put

*) "select features" tool -> node tool markers disappear

and finally
*) "zoom last"/"zoom next" tools -> node tool markers stay put but they are NOT redesigned so they show int he wrong place with the wrong scale.

I think the only problem here is that the node tool doesn't keep the feature
currently beeing edited on deactivation.

It's ok that the markers disappear, when another tool is activated or the layer
is changed, but they should reappear when the node tool is activated again.

"Zoom in", "Zoom out", "Pan Map" and "Select features" are activated (change
what happens when you click on the canvas) and therefore deactivate the node
tool. In that case the node tool markers should disappear.

"Zoom full", "Zoom to layer", "Zoom to selection", "Zoom last" and "Zoom next"
just change the window and leave the activated node tool untouched and hence
don't make the markers disappear.

I can't reproduce that the node tool markers don't disappear on selected items
(which would be a bug). QGIS is probably set to "show vertex markers only for
selected features" in Options/Digitizing and therefore just the vertex markers
don't disappear (which isn't a bug).

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Author Name: Maxim Dubinin (@simgislab)

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Replying to [comment:4 jef]:

I think the only problem here is that the node tool doesn't keep the feature
currently beeing edited on deactivation.
Yes, this would be nice if it remember the last feature.

I'm turning it into feature request.

Selection doesn't help storing nodes active anymore.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• fixed_version_id was changed from Version 1.7.0 to Version 1.7.4

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• fixed_version_id was changed from Version 1.7.4 to Version 2.0.0

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Author Name: Pirmin Kalberer (Pirmin Kalberer)

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• fixed_version_id was changed from Version 2.0.0 to Future Release - Nice to have

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• pull_request_patch_supplied was configured as 0
• easy_fix was configured as 0

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Author Name: Regis Haubourg (@haubourg)

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Node tool has been totally redesigned. Now vertices are shown with markers only on mouse hover. The context is totally different then.
Can you check you still have some issues, I couldn't reproduce anymore.

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• assigned_to_id was changed from nobody to Martin Dobias
• description was changed from Any layer

Start editing, select editing nodes tool,click on object - nodes show up

Switch to zoom - nodes disappear

So need to zoom, select tool, click on object, zoom ....etc. Rather inconvinient!

Note that if object is selected, nodes don't dissappear, so may be we need to select object when clicked with node editing tool, so navigating will note loose node view. to Any layer

Start editing, select editing nodes tool,click on object - nodes show up

Switch to zoom - nodes disappear

So need to zoom, select tool, click on object, zoom ....etc. Rather inconvinient!

Note that if object is selected, nodes don't dissappear, so may be we need to select object when clicked with node editing tool, so navigating will note loose node view.

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