Hi Sylvain,
I asked our developers and these attributes should work OK with
reading them from v8 - so my suggestion is that you send your igds
file to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask us to look into the matter there; it
will be better than trying to work it through using this group.

Regards,

Mark

Mark Ireland, Senior Product Specialist
Safe Software Inc. Surrey, BC, CANADA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.safe.com
Solutions for Spatial Data Translation, Distribution and Access

--- In [email protected], "mark2atsafe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Sylvain,
> It's very strange that the textstyle attributes don't appear in the
> R+W manual unless you actually search for them (at least in my copy
> they don't) so I've never even seen these before!
> 
> I'll check into it, but I guess it's possible that...
> 
> a) textstyle attributes only work for a particular version of igds -
> eg v7, which is why you are having problems when using v8
> 
> b) textstyle attributes can only be written not read - there are a few
> attributes that have this behaviour
> 
> I can't confirm either of these at the moment, I just throw them out
> as possibilities, but I will check with the developers and get back to
> you.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Mark
> 
> --- In [email protected], "Sylvain Caillet" <s.caillet@> wrote:
> >
> > Ok thanks for your answers.
> > 
> > It's quite important for me to get the bold information for igds
> texts. May be you can ask your developpers team. As i can see in the
> MDL header files of Microstation V8 (mdl.h), it comes with the ULong 
> bold field of the TextExFlags part of the TextParamWide structure. But
> as i said, i can't get any value for the igds_textstyle_extflags 
> attribute. So i can't check it.
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > Sylvain Caillet
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: mark2atsafe 
> >   To: [email protected] 
> >   Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 7:29 PM
> >   Subject: [fme] Re: Seeking for some igds text attributes
> > 
> > 
> >   Hi Sylvain,
> >   In answer to your questions...
> > 
> >   1) I can't see anything in our documentation that applies to
bolding a
> >   font in Microstation. If that information is available in FME then I
> >   guess it will be as an attribute linkage. Have a read of the
attribute
> >   linkage part of the FME Readers and Writers manual - but I'm
afraid I
> >   can't guarantee anything. If you're stuck on this one then let
me know
> >   and I can canvass our developers' opinion.
> > 
> >   2) I don't think it's possible to get the font name because there is
> >   no standard for matching ID to name - eg the Engineering font might
> >   have an ID of 3 in symb.rsc but other resource files might apply a
> >   different ID number. Unfortunately FME doesn't read the rsc files to
> >   find out this level of information. The best I can suggest is to
> >   manually make a lookup table that applies to your font rsc file.
> > 
> >   Hope this info is useful,
> >   Regards,
> > 
> >   Mark
> > 
> >   Mark Ireland, Senior Product Specialist
> >   Safe Software Inc. Surrey, BC, CANADA
> >   support@ http://www.safe.com
> >   Solutions for Spatial Data Translation, Distribution and Access
> > 
> >   --- In [email protected], "Sylvain Caillet" <s.caillet@> wrote:
> >   >
> >   > Hi !
> >   > 
> >   > I am reading Bentley DGN V8 files to translate them into SHP
and CVS
> >   files. I want to put in these CVS files some attributes read
from the
> >   input files according to geometry. 
> >   > 
> >   > Everything works fine but i am still looking for some text
> attributes :
> >   > - which attribute to know that a text is bold ? 
> >   > --> according to my knowledge of mdl microstation structure, i
> >   suppose it's embedded into the igds_textstyle_extflags
attribute, but
> >   wheter i put some bold text into my input files, i don't get any
value
> >   for this attribute (i have set it to a big number or a 1000 length
> >   char to be sure to store the whole structure - it's a big one :-)
> >   > 
> >   > - is it possible to get the text font name instead of the text
> font id ?
> >   > 
> >   > Best regards
> >   > 
> >   > Sylvain Caillet
> >   >
> >
>






Join us at the FME Worldwide User Conference Sept. 21-22, 2006 Vancouver BC 
Canada. For more information, visit www.safe.com/2006uc.   
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fme/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 



Reply via email to