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

[Martin Dobias]

On Nov 15, 2007 2:46 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> 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.

Hi Tim,

will these changes have some impact on QGIS core/gui libraries?
(e.g. some API changes or additions?)

Bye
Martin