[mapguide-trac] #116: User-specified selection style

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#116: User-specified selection style
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   Reporter:  jbirch       |       Owner:     
       Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
   Priority:  medium       |   Milestone:     
  Component:  Server       |     Version:     
   Severity:  minor        |    Keywords:     
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 Currently, the style used for selected items appears to be specified at a
 fairly low level in the code:

 http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/browser/trunk/MgDev/Common/Stylization/SE_Renderer.cpp#L55

 Selection colour is a large factor in the overall cartographic style and
 usability of a map.

 Ideally, the default selection style could be specified on a per-site
 basis, and users would be allowed to fully define an alternate style for
 selected features on a layer-by-layer basis.

 Apart from aesthetics and legibility on primarily-blue maps, there are
 some usability enhancements possible.  For instance, the alternate style
 could specify a label where the unselected items don't show one.  DMSG has
 done this the hard way for a "print" function on the CoN Cemetery Map.
 Images attached.

 J

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