[Gvsig_english] gvSIG 1.9 (1243) some issues regarding the latest version

[Wolfgang Qual]

Dear list,
some issues I ran into when trying to use gvSIG 1.9 in "real life" 
regarding tables, join function and event themes.

* JOIN Function:
   + if a table is loaded into gvSIG and a new column is added (edit 
mode), gvSIG will not accept this new column within the join dialogue as 
a key column. It just says: column could not be kept. Workaround: after 
saving the modified table, the table should be removed from the project 
manager. Loaded again, the new column is accepted by gvSIG.
* EVENT theme
  + it seems to be impossible to use a joined table as an input theme 
for the event theme dialogue. The strange error message "35" appeared. 
Workaround for me: export table as xls (dbf does not do the job, see 
below), open it in openoffice, save as dbf and load that table in gvSIG.
  + event theme can be created out of the dbf table described above. 
However, when I export that temporary layer to shapefile, all "umlauts" 
(ä,ü,ö,ß) will not be displayed correctly. It is not possible to correct 
this (using extShalom). I just failed. It did not even help to save the 
original table in utf-8 in open office (utf-8 is the standard encoding) 
and then create the event theme. EXPORT TO SHAPEFILE WILL ALWAYS RESULT 
IN BROKEN UMLAUTS. I would be MOST GRATEFUL, if someone would have an 
idea how to deal with this. ile eventtheme aus solch einer Tabelle, dann 
alle Umlaute defekt.
* Export table to dbf:
   + exporting tables to dbf created tables where original columns got 
mixed up completely. The resulting table was not usable at all. Sorry to 
say that.
* TABLES in general
  + it would be great, if integer values in xls/openoffice would be 
displayed in gvSIG also as integer values. Right now, numbers always get 
a ".0" at the end.
* LINK:
  + the link function is good, I would like to use it to identify false 
values of a key column. For me, selecting more than one records in one 
table was not reflected in the other table. Is this correct?

Any comments or ideas are appreciated very much. I hope that these 
issues can be reviewed within the stabilization process. I consider them 
as very important, as they make are cruical for my work.

Best,
Wolfgang








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