Hi Andreas Yes they way that you have described generally seems logical with the exception that I don't understand why it should be necessary to specify fields for distance, X & Y before rotation and position are enabled. I would have thought that all position options could be selected on a case-by-case basis with the defaults used where options aren't specified - that way there would be no need to create dummy fields. Is there a reason why this default solution is inappropriate? Andrew
>Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:39:20 +0200 >From: Andreas Neumann <a.neum...@carto.net> >Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] New Labeling: >To: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org >Message-ID: <4e6fb168.9060...@carto.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >Hi Andrew, > >The logic is that one often wants label positions separate from the >actual geometry. The new label tool allows x/y positions not only for >point geometries (where one can use the point geometry), but also for >line and area features. If x/y columns are empty, QGIS uses the featurue >geometry, if one manually moves the labels, x/y columns are used. This >way one can mix manual and automatic labeling. > >If you want fully automatic labeling just create dummy x/y columns and >never manually move labels around. > >Does it sound illogical to you? > >Andreas _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer