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 > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
