Operations of copying, cutting and pasting provide the user with a convenient method of copying and transferring individual features or groups of features. To perform these operations the context menu of the interactive editing mode is used.
The context menu command Copy is enabled only in the case if there are selected features in the displaying pane. When performing this operation, copies of all selected features are placed into the clipboard. The features being copied are not changed.
The command Cut also results in placing all selected features into the clipboard. The difference from the previous command is that in this case the features are removed from the map.
The context menu command Paste is enabled if there are copied features in the clipboard. This command adds all features from the clipboard to the map. Pasting of features from the clipboard can be performed not only in the same browser window where they were copied or cut, but in any other map browser window, even in a different GDB or in a different running ObjectLand instance.
Before performing pasting the system opens a dialog box shown at figure 19-1.
Figure 19-1. Dialog box “Pasting features” with the menu of type selection
To perform pasting the user should do two things:
Select layer and feature type in destination theme for every feature type present in the clipboard. By default the system offers to use in destination the same types to which features in the buffer belong (only if these feature types are present in the destination theme). To change the feature type the user should select the corresponding row in the pane of the dialog box “Paste of features” and call the context menu. The system displays the context menu in the form of lists of layers and feature types of the destination theme coinciding in the spatial category with the selected type in the clipboard (see figure 19-1).
Pasting is possible only in the case if the theme in which features are pasted contains at least one feature type of every spatial category represented in the clipboard. Otherwise, it will be impossible for several types in the buffer to find the appropriate type in the destination and the button OK will remain disabled.
Specify shift of pasted features along X and Y axes of coordinate system of destination map with respect to the coordinates of these features in the source of copying. By default the system supposes zero shift.
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