[mapguide-internals] RFC 14(CartographicStylizationEngine)comments

Jason Birch Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca
Thu Feb 15 13:54:30 EST 2007


My goal:  making things harder for the programmer :)

(yes, I think we agree)

Jason 

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14(CartographicStylizationEngine)comments


> About being able to set size, etc, based on expressions...  These
would
> have to be defined at the layer level, wouldn't they?

Yes. That's why symbol expressions can be parametrized in the
SymbolInstance (which is in the layer definition). See the
ParameterOverrides element. In any case, this doesn't matter for the
ScaleX and ScaleY since those are defined in the SymbolInstance which is
already part of the layer definition.

> I don't really care about how this is stored in the schema, but if the

> UI makes it more difficult for me to perform these tasks, it will
reduce
> my productivity and increase my frustration level... :)

So we agree? :). I believe that with the schema as is, the UI can
determine enough about the symbol to make things easy for the user (not
necessarily for the programmer).

Traian


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