[Xastir] trail attributes - colour, thickness

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:23:48PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Tom Tessier wrote:
> 
> > I had another  request that I thought would be better suited to a different
> > stream than the first I just submitted. Is there a way to change the
> > attributes of trails - such as thickness and colour?
> 
> Only for the ones that are Garmin Routes/Tracks and are saved as
> Shapefiles.  You can specify the color when you're downloading it,
> or change the name of it to a different color after downloading.

BTW, this is a bit off topic, but xastir also creates a dbfawk file to go with 
garmin routes and tracks from gpsman, so that they can be used outside of the 
GPS directory --- if used elsewhere, the color is not taken from the filename, 
and is taken from the dbfawk file instead (the color written to the dbfawk 
file is the same as the color in the name).  Assuming you run with DBFAWK
enabled, that is.  

> I've long thought it'd be nice to be able to cycle through the
> available colors for any given track, make them wider/narrower, or
> change them from line to dots to dashed line to the other options
> that X11 supports.

That would be nice.  

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