[Qgis-developer] A trip down memory lane - .avl style support in QGIS

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

Yes you are right - Ill just keep it as a patch that I wll apply post
0.9.1 to trunk. I think it will not be big or invasive changes.

Regards

Tim

2007/11/15, Marco Hugentobler <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch>:
> Hi Tim,
>
> These are good news! I'm looking forward to that feature.
>
> > - where shall I do this work? Advanced editing branch?
>
> Or create a new branch for it. As the .avl support is not an editing feature,
> I would prefer to not code it in the editing branch. If you think it is too
> much to open a branch only for this feature, it could also be a patch that
> you apply after 0.9.1.
>
> Afaik the .avl style support would not relate to any code that has been
> changed in the advanced editing branch. So I don't expect conflicts when both
> will be merged together.
>
> Regards,
> Marco
>
> On Thursday 15 November 2007 14:46:58 Tim Sutton wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > Over the next week or so I plan to work on adding support for
> > autoproperties of vector layers. If you ever used ArcView 3.x I'm
> > talking about a feature similar to .avl support. The idea is that for
> > supported vector layers when the layer (e;g; layerfoo.shp) is first
> > loaded, QGIS will look for an associated layerfoo.qml file and if it
> > exists and we are not loading a project file, the symbology and other
> > settings in the qml file will be applied to the layer as it is loaded.
> > The .qml format will be exactly the same as the xml serilised layer
> > properties.
> >
> > I will add a couple of buttons to the layer properties box to allow
> > loading and saving symbologies. If the qml file basename matches, it
> > will be automatically loaded at layer load. If the name does not
> > match, the user will be able to load it using the load symbology
> > button. Doing it this way will let you store multiple persistent
> > symbology profiles, with one of them being default.
> >
> >
> > So the point of my email is to ask:
> >
> > - is anyone else working on this same functionality - if so please let
> > me know so I don't duplicate effort.
> > - where shall I do this work? Advanced editing branch? I dont antipate
> > it will take a long time to complete and would like to merge it in to
> > trunk soon after 0.9.1 goes out.
> > - are there any special behaviours or considerations people would like
> > me to take into account while doing this work?
> > - Düster I believe you had also requested this feature from Gary at
> > the FOSS4GIS conference - is there anything that I've left out that
> > you were hoping for?
> >
> > Note I will be out of contact till Sunday so apologies if my response
> > is not immediate.
> >
> > Regards
>
>
>
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> Dr. Marco Hugentobler
> Institute of Cartography
> ETH Zurich
> Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee
> marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch
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