Hi Geoff, I've played around with offset distance and HTML formatting on labels too. Perhaps we'll get there. I am changing the code base a little at a time to judge the response and keep backward compatibility with project files.
regards, Larry Becker On 8/23/07, Geoffrey G Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- http://amusingprogrammer.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
