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

[José Antonio Canalejo Alonso]

Hello Wolfgang,
in "Expresion de etiquetado" you have to write the columm in [ ]. If you want to label the field "area" you must write [area]
Regards
José Antonio Canalejo



----- Mensaje original ----
> De: Wolfgang Qual <wolfgang.qual at gmx.net>
> Para: Users and Developers mailing list <gvsig_internacional at runas.cap.gva.es>; fjp at scolab.es
> Enviado: sábado, 25 de octubre, 2008 21:30:51
> Asunto: Re: [Gvsig_english] regarding new symbology and labelling of gvsig 2.0 devel
> 
> 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