Hi Larry,
thanks for your effort, I think this new function would be a nice and
useful option for labeling!
I don't know if I am getting the problem correctly, but couldn't the
entries of the "vertical alignment"-combobox be changed to "above the
feature", "on the feature" and "below the feature"? For existing
polygon-layers the vertical alignment should be set to "on the feature"
automatically if someone activates the "labels"-tab of the
styles-dialog and the style actually is set to "on the feature" (as the
previous default).
I haven't looked into the affected classes and I am not as well
informed about the OJ-code, so maybe my ideas are not realizable...
Regards,
Nils
Michaël Michaud schrieb:
Hi, Larry
Thanks Stefan. I would appreciate feedback from others on how
vertical alignment for polygons affects their work, plugins, or
tutorials. If necessary, I can change the default so that it acts
like it did before the mod (for new layers). Unfortunately, (for
existing layers) the default setting for vertical alignment was "Above
the Line" but the Style was "On the Line", so there could be lots of
unintended consequences for existing layers. Does anyone have
suggestions as to how these could be minimized?
This change will not affect my work as I don't use styles too much. But
it's always good to have more choice. That's nice to have a new option.
The only way I can think of to solve the confusion between "Above Line"
and "On the line" is
- to let "Above the line" have its old meaning even for polygons (can
think "Above the line traversing the polygon horizontaly and passing
through its middle")
- adding "Above/Below the polygon" or "Above/Below the feature" which
will act as your new option for polygons and which will act as
Above/Below line for point/linestring
Just an idea to keep backward compatibility. I do not say it should be
done that way, as it adds more menu items without adding really new
capabilities.
Maybe another option could be to create a small beantool to migrate old
"Above line" styles to new "On" style for a selection of layers.
Michaël
regards,
Larry
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Stefan Steiniger <sst...@geo.uzh.ch
<mailto:sst...@geo.uzh.ch>> wrote:
is welcome, I would say.
thanks!
Larry Becker schrieb:
> I made an experimental change to LabelStyle to allow vertical
alignment
> to work for polygons and not just points and lines. For maps with
> polygon layers that are not "space filling" (i.e. buildings), the
> preferred label position is outside of the polygon, and you
would choose
> a vertical alignment of Above or Below. For the old method of
labels
> guaranteed to be on the polygon, choose On. Currently the menu text
> also includes "the Line" after Above, On, or Below, but this should
> probably be removed if you like this change.
>
> regards,
> Larry
>
>
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