Nathan, if I understand correctly, your mockup is for labelling, but you say we could use exactly the same kind for symbology ?. If so, I proposed in my previous post the "Data defined settings" tab for symbology, which will list all the properties wich can be configured this way.<br>
The icon idea is a good one too, and could make the "Data defined settings" useless if all the settings can use it.It will require more efforts as you will have to change the ui so that each control can be turned off and on again depending of the database icon state, but this will be a great enhancement. No more 2 different dialogs to set the same property<br>
<br>Michael<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/4/1 Nathan Woodrow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:madmanwoo@gmail.com">madmanwoo@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div>Good idea I have a mockup UI [attached] for doing this kind of thing.</div><div><br></div><div>Idea is: Click on the little database icon a it switches the normal control onto a combo box so that you can pick from a field.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Nathan</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:23 PM, kimaidou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kimaidou@gmail.com" target="_blank">kimaidou@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi list,<br><br>Another thing that would be great for symbology would be the ability to define symbology properties taken from layer columns, so that for the same layer, feature "A" can have svgA.svg, feature "B" have "svgB.svg", or decide which columns set the svg size, color, transparency, rotation, etc. For now, in 1.8, we can only set rotation and size with the "advanced" list.<br>
<br>This would be a great feature which will help a lot to add some dynamic symbology.<br><br></blockquote><div> </div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Michael<br>
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