6 Nov
2004
6 Nov
'04
2:02 a.m.
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 19:44, Alan Horkan wrote:
I dont understand why you cannot use the group id directly as the layer name. Jasc Webdraw has a tree view widget, somewhat reminiscent of a layers dialog and the id's are the labels (although i think it automatically forces you to replace spaces with underscores).
Two reasons:
1. changing the id requires updating the document structure (which is a pain to require for every name change, and will be obnoxious to users who use external document references)
2. as you point out, the grammar for ids is very constrained; there are other restrictions besides simply whitespace being disallowed that would seem very annoying and arbitrary to users naming layers
-mental