[Gvsig_english] regarding new symbology and labelling of gvsig 2.0 devel

[Wolfgang Qual]

Hello Fran,
ok. I prepared a screenshot of what I do not understand (enclosed).
Am Samstag, den 25.10.2008, 20:59 +0200 schrieb Francisco José
Peñarrubia:
> Hi Wolfgang.
> 
> Jaume gave me this message for you :-) :
> 
> "Of course SVG support is included. I've widely tested it when I was in 
> the project and works gracefully apart a little change that has to be 
> done for files made by Inkscape. But once this change is made (adding or 
> removing one attribute, not sure) they are ok. The symbol editor allows 
> to create such symbols and many other types and combine them. And SVG is 
> also used in labeling. That means labels can contain styles with pics or 
> templates like traffic signs where you define where to put the text 
> inside the label which text symbol (not only font and size but 
> formatting, etc...) and render it together the style.
wow. that sounds great!
> 
> And about the labeling, not sure what do you mean. 
see screenshot.
> If you talk about the 
> labeling in the extSymbology extension which includes the smart labeling 
> engine, well I'll give some tips. This new labeling engine detects 
> conflicts and tries to relocate the label, it also uses the label styles 
> and a label expression calculator to allow dynamic text creation. At the 
> time I left the project (three months ago) this calculator only had two 
> or three string functions. But extending it is extremely easy from a 
> developer point of view, for sure the gvSIG guys did it! So, because of 
> the label relocation and this dynamic and customizable text calculation 
> the labeling becomes really powerful (and remains surprisingly fast). 
> The bad side of this is as far new features allow lots of combinations 
> and options, the dialog for the engine became a bit complicated. In my 
> opinion it is true the first times you use it, but after the philosophy 
> of this labeling is understood then the dialog becomes quite 
> user-friendly. Specially when it is compared to the complexity of the 
> engine. I guess the user's manual will throw light upon this feature, at 
> least lots of new pages to be read for sure :P.

All the best && regards to Jaume.
Wolfgang
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