[Qgis-developer] A trip down memory lane - .avl style support in QGIS

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Tim,

These are good news! I'm looking forward to that feature.

> - where shall I do this work? Advanced editing branch?

Or create a new branch for it. As the .avl support is not an editing feature, 
I would prefer to not code it in the editing branch. If you think it is too 
much to open a branch only for this feature, it could also be a patch that 
you apply after 0.9.1.  

Afaik the .avl style support would not relate to any code that has been 
changed in the advanced editing branch. So I don't expect conflicts when both 
will be merged together.

Regards,
Marco

On Thursday 15 November 2007 14:46:58 Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Over the next week or so I plan to work on adding support for
> autoproperties of vector layers. If you ever used ArcView 3.x I'm
> talking about a feature similar to .avl support. The idea is that for
> supported vector layers when the layer (e;g; layerfoo.shp) is first
> loaded, QGIS will look for an associated layerfoo.qml file and if it
> exists and we are not loading a project file, the symbology and other
> settings in the qml file will be applied to the layer as it is loaded.
> The .qml format will be exactly the same as the xml serilised layer
> properties.
>
> I will add a couple of buttons to the layer properties box to allow
> loading and saving symbologies. If the qml file basename matches, it
> will be automatically loaded at layer load. If the name does not
> match, the user will be able to load it using the load symbology
> button. Doing it this way will let you store multiple persistent
> symbology profiles, with one of them being default.
>
>
> So the point of my email is to ask:
>
> - is anyone else working on this same functionality - if so please let
> me know so I don't duplicate effort.
> - where shall I do this work? Advanced editing branch? I dont antipate
> it will take a long time to complete and would like to merge it in to
> trunk soon after 0.9.1 goes out.
> - are there any special behaviours or considerations people would like
> me to take into account while doing this work?
> - Düster I believe you had also requested this feature from Gary at
> the FOSS4GIS conference - is there anything that I've left out that
> you were hoping for?
>
> Note I will be out of contact till Sunday so apologies if my response
> is not immediate.
>
> Regards



-- 
Dr. Marco Hugentobler
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee
marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch