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

[Wolfgang Qual]

Hello Jose,
ok. I will check this. However, it would be more user-friendly to have a 
dropdown-field, were the name of the desired column could be chosen.
Would it be possible to implement that?

Best,
Wolfgang


Am Donnerstag 30 Oktober 2008 19:06:18 schrieb 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
>
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