(Pardon me if I get some of the naming conventions wrong - I am porting a MapInfo ship-tracking application & am more used to MapInfo terminology)
Is it possible to use Windows fonts as symbols/points? For example WingDings or other fonts that have symbols in them.
And if possible, is it possible to rotate these symbols & colour them as can be done in MapInfo?
(Mapinfo can also assign border (dark outline) or halo (white outline) and can have the font symbol size changeable as well - that would be a bonus!)
I have attached a picture of how things look in MapInfo and what I am trying to achieve using Map Suite Desktop Edition. Only the arrow shaped ship symbol is rotated though it would be possible to rotate the other two. The small dots are the trails where the ships were before. I also censored the labels (which are the next thing I would like to get working somewhat similar to MapInfo).