[Xastir] Proposed change to handling of gps-downloaded shapefiles.

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Tom Russo wrote:

> What I propose to change is to allow the dbfawk file to override the hard-coded
> stuff even when the  file is in the GPS directory.  The dbfawk file that is
> written out by xastir by default is set up to mimic the default behavior,
> so this should be a user-invisible change.  If the user were to edit the dbfawk
> file and fine tune it, however, the changes would be visible immediately upon
> map redraw, and would not require clumsy name changing or moving the file to
> a different directory just to disable the default behavior.
>
> So, if I were to make that change and let map_shp always use the dbfawk file
> if that feature is enabled and the file exists, and only use the default
> hard-coded behavior if dbfawk is disabled or there IS no dbfawk file, would
> anyone be terribly offended?
>
> I think that making this change would be a usability improvement.  But I'm
> happy to listen to those who think otherwise.

The color-based-on-name thing was pre-dbfawk and so quite old and
quite limited in its capability.  It's all we had at the time
though.

I'm definitely for your proposal.  Especially if you're going to be
the one doing it.  ;-)

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