Hi Jukka, As usual you make excellent suggestions. See my comments below.
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Rahkonen Jukka <jukka.rahko...@mmmtike.fi>wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking that now when Matthias and Larry have been working with > selection styles it might be good to collect a list about things in > OpenJUMP styling which do not work or work in somehow irritating way. > > I can start with couple of issues: > > - Colour theming option creates all the new classes with the default > styles. Each theme will then have both the fill and line rendering > selected, colours are synchronised, and line width is 1. However, I > would rather see the classifier to take the defaults from the Rendering > tab so I could set for example the line width somehow bigger for all the > classes. Usually it would mean less manual fine tunign this way. > This seem reasonable to me. I have wished for the same thing. > - It seems to be impossible to show vertises on classified layers. There > is no user interface for that in the "Colour Theming-Custom" and > defaults are not taken from the main Rendering tab. > This and the previous request can probably be done by updating the UI dialog. > - The above issue, I think, makes it impossible to use colour theme on > point layers. Or it is possible, OpenJUMP is doing the classification, > but all the points are still rendered with the same colour. > I need to look into this one. > - "Custom" dialogue for a classified layer shows also Transparency > slider. However, it is affecting all the classes and not only the > selected one. It might be better to remove the slider from the "Custom" > dialogue. There is another slider on the main Colour Theming tab and > also the transparency slider on the main Rendering tab can be used. > Actually the use of both could be possible if the one that affects all is proportional as in Layer properties. > - There is a little issue with the polygon styling. If I create a new > layer with OpenJUMP and draw a polygon, and next select to show vertices > option from the Rendering tab, as a result ONLY the vertices are shown > but the outline and fill disapper. It took me a long time to discover > that this happens only if a layer does not have any attribute fields in > its schema. It is enought to insert one attribute field into the schema > to correct the rendering. Attribute field can be empty for all the > features, it does not matter. > Sounds like a bug. > > To start a wishlist for the future, QGis "New symbology" option gives a > possibity to build easily multi-layer or multi-stroke symbols. Something > like that would by nice to have in OpenJUMP also. For example a road > with red fill, black borders and black dottet centre line could be > constructed by piling up a wide black line, a narrover red line and a > most narror black dottet line on top. For point layers even such a > simple style than big coloured circle and a small insert with another > colour can make the map much more easier to read. > It is possible to augment the existing style with another tab that would allow an additional overlay. > > GGis User manual > http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/doc/manual/qgis-1.4.0_user_guide_en.pdfha > s something about New Symbology option in chapter > 5.4.3. Working with the New Generation Symbology > On manual page 54, Figure 16, (a) Line composed from three simple lines > may give an idea about multi-layer symbols. > > -Jukka Rahkonen- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel >
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