[mapguide-internals] Quotes around halfline and center

[Zac Spitzer]

I'm guessing there's a bit of a performance overhead involved there?
exacerbated when using a tiled map?

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Ben Trumbore <ben.trumbore at autodesk.com> wrote:
> OK, I see that the apostrophes are missing.  That isn't correct, but the layer still renders as expected, right?  I created a default polygon layer with Studio 2010, and it includes the apostrophes.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Zac Spitzer
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> I just created a quick sample layer as a test using studio 2009 and
> 2.0.2 which is attached
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Ben Trumbore <ben.trumbore at autodesk.com> wrote:
>> Zac,
>>
>> Are you sure it does that?  I checked the style editor code history and the apostrophes have been included since at least mid-2005.  The UI dropdown doesn't show the apostrophes, but it adds them to the layer when you make a selection.
>>
>> I think the stylization engine is also a bit tolerant of missing apostrophes.  If it fails to obtain a value for what it thinks is a property name, it treats it as a constant string, which in this case has a meaningful value.  Traian can correct me if I'm mistaken.
>>
>>        Ben
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Zac
>> Spitzer
>> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 5:31 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] Quotes around halfline and center
>>
>> Thanks Ben!
>>
>> So why does studio 2009 insert them without quotes?
>>
>> z
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Ben Trumbore <ben.trumbore at autodesk.com> wrote:
>>> Zac,
>>>
>>> Most of the stylization elements are defined as FDO expressions.  So,
>>>        <VerticalAlignment>Halfline</VerticalAlignment>
>>> says to take the vertical alignment value from a feature property named Halfline, where
>>>        <VerticalAlignment>'Halfline'</VerticalAlignment>
>>> declares a constant value for the vertical alignment.
>>>
>>>        Ben
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>> [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Zac
>>> Spitzer
>>> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 3:29 AM
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>>> Subject: [mapguide-internals] Quotes around halfline and center
>>>
>>> Out of interest, what is the reason for having quotes around some of
>>> the stylisation stuff?
>>>
>>> ie
>>>
>>> <VerticalAlignment>'Halfline'</VerticalAlignment>
>>>
>>> z
>>>
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