<p>Hi Patrick,</p><p>You need to change your preferences.</p><p>Open preferences dialog and select 'editing' and/or 'symbology' and/or 'view' nodes.</p><p>Adjust the opacity to suit your preferences. Restart gvSIG to see the results. If you don't nothing will happen.</p><p>I have reduced opacity for selection color, reference axis color, selection handle color on the editing tab; default color on the symbology tab, and; default selection color and opacity on the view nodes. </p><p>Simon </p><p>------- Original Message -------<br />On 1/11/2010 05:54 AM Dr. F. Patrick Graz wrote:<br />Hi folks,<br /><br />I have run into a snag, this time in relation to database development. <br /><br /><br /><br />To digitize a farm and all its camps it is useful to digitize the outer<br /><br />boundary as a polygon and then split it into its component camps. This<br /><br />ensures that overlapping 'doesn't occur' when you are working with shape<br
/><br />files.<br /><br /><br /><br />However, when you digitize polygons they are given a solid fill so that you<br /><br />cannot see boundaries underneath. Does anyone know how to change the fill<br /><br />pattern while digitizing? The 'normal' method (through the layer properties)<br /><br />does not seem to have an effect.<br /><br /><br /><br />Thanks <br /><br /><br /><br />Patrick<br /><br /><br /><br />------------------------------------------<br /><br />Dr. F. Patrick Graz<br /><br />Snr. Researcher, <br /><br />Multidisciplinary Research Centre, <br /><br />University of Namibia<br /><br /><br /><br />_______________________________________________<br /><br />Gvsig_internacional mailing list<br /><br />Gvsig_internacional@listserv.gva.es<br /><br />http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional<br /><br /><br /></p>