> so a.. what i am going to tell was that i thought about adding
> classification capabilities. But actually Arnd proposed to have such a
> functionality external, which adds a new attribute with the result ???)

I've got code in SkyJUMP that could support a similar functionality.
It is a mod to BasicStyle that checks for an Attribute called R_G_B
and if it is found and and contains a hex RBG string (like 0000FF for
Blue), it overrides the color.  You could probably compute the color
by editing the dbf in a spreadsheet.  Of course, this doesn't help if
you need a nice layer tree legend.

Arnd's idea sounds pretty cool too.  Generate a new attribute and
apply color theming to it.

Larry

On 9/13/07, Stefan Steiniger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> as far as i know arcgis has some kind of update button..
> so we could it this way as well.
>
> (i know i should not propose something in the far future, but the colour
> theming should be extended in the future - providing different types of
> classification. Erwan/SIGLE did some first work on it (contained of the
> FOSS4G 2006 edition). I started to transfer the code but I lost it
> during an update because I did not check it in immediatly as i
> discovered some bug - so a "re-design" should also include thought on
> additional classification methods
> so a.. what i am going to tell was that i thought about adding
> classification capabilities. But actually Arnd proposed to have such a
> functionality external, which adds a new attribute with the result ???)
>
> stefan
>
> Martin Davis schrieb:
> > Sounds good to me, Larry.
> >
> > Having the Attribute dropdown always live might not be the 100% best
> > solution, but at least it will let the user avoid the latency issue.
> > Once it's out there and in use, a better approach might become apparent.
> >
> > I'm not crazy about the idea of an "Update Styles" button, because it's
> > nice to do this automatically.  But it's also not nice of JUMP to block
> > for a long period of time unexpectedly.  I guess a third approach would
> > be to prompt the user if he wants to continue if the style list
> > population is likely to take a long time.  But that's got it's own
> > annoyance...
> >
> > M
> >
> > Larry Becker wrote:
> >> Hi Martin,
> >>
> >>   Yea, I think enabling the Attribute dropdown all of the time would
> >> be acceptable.  I am familiar with the code and can do it tonight if
> >> no one objects or has a better idea.
> >>
> >> regards,
> >> Larry
> >>
> >> On 9/12/07, Martin Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> One thing that is very annoying and that we never got around to fixing
> >>> in JUMP is the sometimes extremely poor responsiveness when enabling
> >>> Colour Theming on a layer. It often happens that when you click the
> >>> "Enable colour theming" checkbox  JUMP decides that you want to theme on
> >>> FID and goes off and builds a list of colour styles for every single
> >>> feature in a layer.  This can be VERY slow.
> >>>
> >>> A better approach would be to let the user choose exactly what he wants
> >>> to theme on, before the style list is created.  I'm not sure what the
> >>> best workflow for this is.  Options I can see are:
> >>> - let the Attribute dropdown be live all the time, and only build the
> >>> colour list when the Enable box is checked
> >>> - Only refresh the Styles list on user command, via a "Update styles" 
> >>> button
> >>>
> >>> There's probably other possibilities too.
> >>>
> >>> Has anyone thought of taking this on to improve?
> >>>
> >>> Martin
> >>>
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