Hi Marco, Thanks for the notes about usage. Once I set things up properly, it worked as expected. Another excellent addition to the codebase.
Cheers, John On Nov 17, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote: > Hi John > > There is a little blog article about the tools on www.sourcepole.com > > The tools only work on data defined label position / rotation / properties. > So > if you want to move labels, you need to have a field with x-values and > y-values > in the layer. Additionally, the layer needs to be in edit mode. > > If you don't have x-,y-fields, you could just create them. In case of NULL > values, the label will be automatically placed. > > > Regards, > Marco > > Am Mittwoch, 17. November 2010, um 17.20:46 schrieb John C. Tull: >> Hi Marco, >> >> The new label placement tools are an excellent addition to qgis. I tried to >> test these on OSX, but they seem to be non-functional. For my test case, I >> added a polygon shapefile, used the advanced labeling plugin to label the >> layer with default settings and a valid text field, then clicked the move >> tool. I get a plus symbol cursor, but clicking on a label does not do >> anything. This is true for the other tools also. >> >> I look forward to using this. Let me know if I can provide any details that >> might help you get to the underlying problem on OS X. >> >> Thanks, >> John > > > -- > Dr. Marco Hugentobler > Sourcepole - Linux & Open Source Solutions > Webereistrasse 66, 8134 Adliswil, Switzerland > marco.hugentob...@sourcepole.ch http://www.sourcepole.ch > Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer