Opened 18 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
#116 closed enhancement (fixed)
User-specified selection style
Reported by: | jbirch | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | medium | Milestone: | |
Component: | Server | Version: | |
Severity: | minor | Keywords: | |
Cc: | assefa | External ID: |
Description ¶
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
Change History (6)
by , 18 years ago
Attachment: | selection_native.png added |
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by , 18 years ago
Attachment: | selection_alternate.png added |
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Alternate Mode selection in Cemetery Map
comment:1 by , 17 years ago
Um, the GDRenderer has this specified as well:
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/browser/trunk/MgDev/Common/Renderers/GDRenderer.cpp#L1487
I really think that this needs to be pulled out as a configurable item, at the very least on a per-server level, but preferably on a per-layer or per-map level.
Jason
comment:2 by , 17 years ago
Cc: | added |
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Is there a milestone set for this enhancement ? (bug 220 which is closed was set I beleive to 1.3 release). Thanks
comment:3 by , 17 years ago
Not currently. The milestone on #220 was set by the submitter, and was bumped as part of a bulk operation prior to the last release.
comment:4 by , 17 years ago
Resolution: | → fixed |
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Status: | new → closed |
This enhancement was addressed to my satisfaction with RFC 38.
Allowing a complete stylization definition for the selection layer would be nice, but is not critical to me at this point.
Native Mode selection in Cemetery Map