[Gdal-dev] Problem writing to MapInfo files

[Daniel Morissette]

Woon Wei Lee wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I have been trying to put together a little program to re-write data from an existing *.TAB file to a new layer but with different colours for the features (I am working on an app to process traffic data then return a colour-coded congestion map) but the ogr library refuses to transfer the stylestring info over to the new layer. 
> 
> I noticed from a previous posting that this is a known bug ( http://xserve.flids.com/pipermail/gdal-dev/2004-July/006558.html ) so I thought I could have a short at debugging it but I can't seem to find the relevant part of the ogr source. 
> 
> My program uses the function OGR_L_CreateFeature() from the c api which is a wrapper for OGRLayer::CreateFeature() but the closest I can find is this bit of code from ogrlayer.cpp:
> 
> OGRErr OGRLayer::CreateFeature( OGRFeature * )
> 
> {
>     return OGRERR_UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION;
> }
> 
> which presumably is a stub for some driver specific version which is contained in another file.. however I just can't find where the "real" function is. Could anyone help me out please??
> 

The TAB driver's CreateFeature() is implemented in 
gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/mitab/mitab_imapinfofile.cpp

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