[Gdal-dev] How to get feature style from shapefile

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:16:45 +0300, Oleg Semykin <oss-dev at rambler.ru> wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I have a problem ....
> 
> I can't get style of feature when parsing *.shp/dbf/shx file
> 
> OGRFeature->GetStyleString
> <http://gdal.org/ogr/classOGRFeature.html#a46> () returns NULL
> 
> Does anybody know another method to obtain feature style definition?

Oleg, 

Shapefiles have no built-in styling information so GetStyleString()
returns NULL.  In fact, I think only mapinfo and DGN formats
currently return styling information in OGR. 

Best regards,
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