<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 6:08 AM, <a href="mailto:aruntheguy@gmail.com">aruntheguy@gmail.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aruntheguy@gmail.com">aruntheguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1bw">So the idea is to create such a decoupled designer, which is something like a "Style Manager ++ (decoupled)". I am writing the possible solution and a couple of ideas as a proposal which might contain some over sighted goals. Kindly go through, evaluate and comment.<br>
<br>Proposal:<br><br>+ Remove Symbol Creating/Editing capabilities from the "Style" tab of Layer Properties and retain only application(renderer) customizations like, size, color, angle etc., This will remove the iterative dialog popup situation and also keep the clutter in the UI to minimum.<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm going to be a -1 one on this proposal. I, like Antia, do a lot of experimenting in the style dialog and I don't like the idea of having to go somewhere else to define my custom symbols/or use them. </div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1bw">
+ Create a new symbol designer, that can be summoned up from Menu rather than from the properties<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>-1. If we have to go down the route of have a split designer it must be easily accessible from the same place that you would pick the symbols. Making the user exit out of the properties dialog to define a new symbol would be bad. </div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1bw">+ The designer to perform following functions<br> - Create new symbols/styles<br> - Grouping and management of styles through a tree structure<br>
- Create and manage virtual groups (or themes) that would pull symbols from various groups and a combination of renders to create a overall cartographic stylesheet (almost same as present save/load style).<br> - Ability to save a retrieve such stylesheets (duplicates the present save/load style)<br>
<br>Apart from the above solution, the GSOC proposal to include,<br><br>- Creating tree structure for managing the SVG symbols<br>- Creating a non-modal widget type editor to change symbols on the fly or adding that capability to the Layers legend.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div> +1 Something like this <a href="http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=08730000000bmoA&returnUrl=/apex/ideaList?c%3D09a300000004xET%26sort%3Dpopular#comments">http://ideas.arcgis.com/ideaView?id=08730000000bmoA&returnUrl=/apex/ideaList?c%3D09a300000004xET%26sort%3Dpopular#comments</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>- Nathan</div></div><br>