[Gvsig_english] gvSIG 1.9 (1246)::monday's feeling: save as shapefile will mix-up attribute table

[Wolfgang Qual]

Hi list,
as reported before, I had some strange results when deleting fields in 
the field manager: the attribute table was "mixed up", field limitations 
seemed to be
forgotten by gvsig. Today, I made a new map using the lates build of 
gvSIG 1.9. When exporting a new event theme to shape-format, I 
discovered that
the problem described here [1] occured again. I was able to create the 
event theme and export it to shapefile in gvSIG 1.1.2. Hopefully, this 
behaviour will be corrected in 1.9 soon.

What I did:
1 Exported an excel file to dbf which contains some coordinates and some 
columns describing those points
2 opened that table in gvSIG
3 created an event theme out of it (table looks nice)
4 export to... shapefile. Got the new shapefile with the strange 
attribute table.
5 reopened the initial dbf, replaced all empty cells (all text-columns) 
with " - " (as I thought that empty cells might cause the prblem)
6 repeated 3,4 got the same result
7 opened the dbf in gvSIG 1.1.2
8 repeated 3,4, result correct. - sigh -


Besides, I also have the impression that great improvements have been 
made since 1243. Thank you very much for your efforts. I would be happy, 
if you could send a comment on this issue.
Best,
Wolfgang


[1] 
http://listserv.gva.es/pipermail/gvsig_internacional/2009-August/003656.html

-- 
Wolfgang Qual
Landeshauptstadt München
Referat für Gesundheit und Umwelt
RGU-UW 11
Sg. 1 Gesundheits- und Umweltberichterstattung, 
Energie und Klimaschutz 
Bayerstr. 28a, 80335 München
Tel.: +49 (0)89 233-477 17
Fax.: +49 (0)89 233-477 05
E-Mail: wolfgang.qual at muenchen.de 

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: gvsig_1246_res_exp2shp_issue.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 124466 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://listserv.gva.es/pipermail/gvsig_internacional/attachments/20090925/9b7f6340/attachment.jpg