[Qgis-user] data defined labelling field details?

[William Kyngesburye]

No, I did not set the X,Y data fields - I want the X,Y to be the point coordinates (maybe a distance from), so the X,Y data fields is redundant and I'd have to figure out and fill in all the coordinates.

On Jan 9, 2011, at 4:23 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:

> Hi William
> 
> Could it be that data defined x-/y-fields were not enable in your case?
> 
> Data defined alignment or rotation is only useful if the label position is data 
> defined too (otherwise, the PAL library calculates position and rotation). 
> 
> Regards,
> Marco
> 
> Am Sonntag, 9. Januar 2011, um 00.06:04 schrieb William Kyngesburye:
>> Well, one problem - I can't set a data column for horiz/vert alignment or
>> rotation on any layers, the popup menu is disabled.
>> 
>> If I use the "old" labelling, I can set placement data column.  What are
>> the values to use here?
>> 
>> On Jan 8, 2011, at 4:29 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> On Jan 8, 2011, at 4:06 PM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:
>>>> Hi William
>>>> 
>>>> Do you use the new labeling?
>>>> If yes:
>>>> 
>>>> bold/italic/underline/strikeout expect int (0 means false )
>>>> 
>>>>> Spell out placement strings? ("Above Left", ...)  Or some sort of
>>>>> abbreviations?  Or maybe it's an integer lookup of the placements?
>>>> 
>>>> Strings
>>>> For horizontal alignment: 'Left', 'Center', 'Right'
>>>> For vertical alignment: 'Bottom', 'Base', 'Half', 'Top'
>>>> 
>>>>> Color - RGB values (in a char field)?
>>>> 
>>>> Hex representation, e.g. #ff0000 for red
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Marco
>>>> 
>>>> Am Samstag, 8. Januar 2011, um 19.20:21 schrieb William Kyngesburye:
>>>>> I want to try some data defined labelling, but I could not find any
>>>>> info about how to configure data fields.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Some of them look obvious, like integers or floats/reals for sizes and
>>>>> offsets, and character/varchar for font.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Maybe boolean for bold/italic/underline/strike?  Or does Qgis want a
>>>>> char representation of a boolean for these?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Placement I think should be a char field, but what are the values to
>>>>> use? Spell out placement strings? ("Above Left", ...)  Or some sort of
>>>>> abbreviations?  Or maybe it's an integer lookup of the placements?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Color - RGB values (in a char field)?  what separator to use?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any other details other details I didn't think of to ask about?
>>>>> 
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