Dear Larry I am pleased to see an interest in improving the label style. In my vertexsymbol plugin I have created an additional label option that has a range of formatting options, like centre, and 8 compass positions from the vertex. It is also possible to set the offset distance (in my case to match the vertex symbol size, or manually). I have also provided an option to allow (HTML) formatted text to make String type labels more interesting.
--- These are just thoughts for the built-in label style. It would be good to see these type of capabilities available in the core. Geoff Larry Becker wrote: > I'm going to be making some major improvements to the Label Style. Is > anyone else working in this area? > > The improvements will be: > > 1. Support for halo text. A halo is a surrounding outline in a > contrasting color to improve readability when using a mixed dark and > light background such as raster images. > > 2. Support for hiding text below a specified scale. This makes it > possible to stop text from rendering when zoomed out too far to > actually read, but still display the geometry. > > 3. Support for horizontal alignment of text. (Left, Center, and Right > justify) > > regards, > Larry Becker > -- Dr Geoffrey G Roy Cadplan 129 Gloster Street, Subiaco WA 6008 Tel: (08) 9381 4870 Fax: (08) 9382 4459 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cadplan.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
