[gdal-dev] Reading OGRStyle information using C++

[Aneesh Muralidharan]

Hi Chaithanya,

Thanks for the quick reply

About the style table, I did try to use the layer style table, but I'm
getting an empty table :(

By the way I'm trying to read a simple DXF file.

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Chaitanya kumar CH
<chaitanya.ch at gmail.com>wrote:

> A layer's style table can be accessed using OGRLayer::GetStyleTable() [1].
>
> [1]: http://www.gdal.org/ogr/classOGRLayer.html
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Chaitanya kumar CH <chaitanya.ch at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Aneesh,
>>
>> A layer can have a style table that stores a set of styles that can be
>> referred by individual features. Usually the style table has a default
>> style.
>>
>> Its usage is explained in the same page as the OGR Feature Style
>> Specification.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Aneesh Muralidharan <symonando at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm new to OGR/GDAL and I'm trying to read style information of vectors
>>> using the OGR C++ API. I followed the documentation available here
>>> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_feature_style.html. I have managed to get
>>> the pen information of the glyphs' in vector file successfully.
>>>
>>> The problem is that, it is unclear that from where can I figure out the
>>> layer style specification. i.e the global style for the layer ( assuming
>>> each glyph's pen can be either one of its own or dependent on the layer ).
>>> The OGRFeatureDefn for the OGRLayer doesn't seem to have this information.
>>>
>>> Also is there any detailed explanation of the API somewhere with some
>>> sample code snippets ? (for the feature-style api. For read/write I know
>>> there is http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_apitut.html)
>>>
>>> Hoping for a quick response
>>>
>>> Thanks and regards,
>>> Aneesh Muralidharan
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Chaitanya kumar CH.
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Chaitanya kumar CH.
>
> +91-9494447584
> 17.2416N 80.1426E
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