[fusion-users] MapServer Legend Icons
Nolte, Tim
Tim.Nolte at ipcswirelessinc.com
Thu Nov 5 16:33:19 EST 2009
Paul,
Excellent! Thank you very much. I've making some good head way on the
whole Legend issue, especially when using multiple maps within a map
group. I'm going to switch over to a single map in the map group and see
what results I get also. I'm happy to be able to submit changes to the
MapServer side of the project. I hope that my work will help others that
are already using MapServer adopt Fusion as their framework of choice.
- Tim
----
Timothy J Nolte - tnolte at ilpcs.com
Network Planning Engineer
iPCS Wireless, Inc.
4717 Broadmoor Ave, Suite G
Kentwood, MI 49512
Office: 616-656-5163
PCS: 616-706-2438
Fax: 616-554-6484
Web: www.ipcswirelessinc.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Spencer [mailto:pspencer at dmsolutions.ca]
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 3:46 PM
To: Nolte, Tim
Cc: fusion-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [fusion-users] MapServer Legend Icons
Hi Tim,
the project is not dead but I don't know how many folks are using it
right now. I know that MapGuide is actively using it and the Autodesk
team there is actively finding and fixing bugs related to the MapGuide
support. DM Solutions is also actively using and developing the
framework and the MapServer support.
I have added you as a committer, welcome aboard!
Cheers
Paul
On 2009-11-05, at 3:03 PM, Nolte, Tim wrote:
> Is this forum and/or project dead? How many people are actually using
> this or developing for it?
>
> Well, on a good note I finally got a somewhat working solution by
> basically forgetting about trying to rely on $_SESSION and basically
> copied a bunch of the LoadMap code that sets up the Scale Ranges
> over to
> the LoadScaleRanges script. I also changed the script to also not rely
> on the $_SESSION to tell it what mapfile it is supposed to use and
> basically copied the code in LoadMap that sets up the SESSION based
> map.
> There is still the issue of the Legend being sorted backwards, the
> Legend icons not all updating properly when zooming in, as well as an
> issue with the map layers not being stacked in the right order. I'm
> plugging away at this. It would be really nice if no one else is
> really
> working on MapServer specific development that I could start
> submitting
> to the SVN or somehow my changes could get approved to be taken into
> the
> project. I'll hate to have to use a diff utility every time there is
> an
> update and have to fix my code so that things still work. Thanks to
> anyone that is actually reading this, if there is anyone out there.
>
> - Tim
>
> ----
> Timothy J Nolte - tnolte at ilpcs.com
> Network Planning Engineer
>
> iPCS Wireless, Inc.
> 4717 Broadmoor Ave, Suite G
> Kentwood, MI 49512
>
> Office: 616-656-5163
> PCS: 616-706-2438
> Fax: 616-554-6484
> Web: www.ipcswirelessinc.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fusion-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:fusion-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Nolte, Tim
> Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:08 PM
> To: Paul Spencer
> Cc: fusion-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [fusion-users] MapServer Legend Icons
>
> Paul,
>
> I attempted this, however what I found was that the way the loading
> process happens it is not enough to just stick the scale ranges into
> the
> PHP $_SESSION. I'm finding that all of the individual maps in many
> cases
> don't yet exist in the SESSION when the corresponding
> LoadScaleRanges is
> called. Do you have any thoughts on how Fusion could be changed to
> only
> call LoadScaleRanges 1 time after all of the LoadMap calls have
> finished? I think this could be the fix. The only other option I see
> is
> that the whole scale ranges creation process needs to be duplicated in
> LoadScaleRanges script. I'm not sure but perhaps this functionality
> needs to be added to the Utilities script?
>
> ----
> Timothy J Nolte - tnolte at ilpcs.com
> Network Planning Engineer
>
> iPCS Wireless, Inc.
> 4717 Broadmoor Ave, Suite G
> Kentwood, MI 49512
>
> Office: 616-656-5163
> PCS: 616-706-2438
> Fax: 616-554-6484
> Web: www.ipcswirelessinc.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fusion-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:fusion-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paul
> Spencer
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 3:07 PM
> To: Nolte, Tim
> Cc: fusion-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [fusion-users] MapServer Legend Icons
>
> Ohhhhh - light goes on - doh! You have 6 maps in the same map group!
> This will need a bit of work :) We need to modify the scale_ranges
> array in the session so that it is subdivided by map name. LoadMap
> needs to set
>
> $_SESSION['scale_ranges'][$mapName]
>
> and LoadScaleRanges needs to use the same thing when referencing it.
> Do you think you could make these changes and test? If it works, I'll
> file the bug and commit. If you don't want to try first, I can take a
> stab at it and commit but I'm not really set up to test right now.
>
> Thanks Tim
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 2009-10-26, at 2:39 PM, Nolte, Tim wrote:
>
>> What I am seeing with Firebug is that there are 6 calls to
>> LoadMap.php,
>> which are my 5 main maps and 1 overview map. After the 5th
>> LoadMap.php
>> call then the LoadScaleRanges.php calls begin, there are 5 calls. One
>> thing that I noticed also is that the MapTips are not working and
>> what
>> is being POSTed to the MapTip.php script is the wrong map for the
>> layer
>> that I've selected for MapTips. Seems like there could be a problem
>> with
>> using the SESSION if the LoadMap.php is not adding something to the
>> SESSION to directly link the call to the LoadScaleRanges.php so that
>> it's not pulling the wrong scale_ranges. Is there any debugging
>> information that I can send?
>>
>> - Tim
>>
>> ----
>> Timothy J Nolte - tnolte at ilpcs.com
>> Network Planning Engineer
>>
>> iPCS Wireless, Inc.
>> 4717 Broadmoor Ave, Suite G
>> Kentwood, MI 49512
>>
>> Office: 616-656-5163
>> PCS: 616-706-2438
>> Fax: 616-554-6484
>> Web: www.ipcswirelessinc.com
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fusion-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [mailto:fusion-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paul
>> Spencer
>> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 11:30 AM
>> To: Nolte, Tim
>> Cc: fusion-users at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [fusion-users] MapServer Legend Icons
>>
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> The legend icon stuff is working in another project that Paul
>> Deschamps is working on, he has multiple map files and a menu for
>> changing between them. The legend does appear to update correctly
>> when changing maps.
>>
>> The way it *should* work is that LoadMap.php populates a session
>> variable 'scale_ranges' with an array of each scale range of each
>> class of each layer. LoadScaleRanges.php uses this array to get the
>> class for each scale range and draw the icon at the appropriate scale
>> for that class and then combines them all into a single image, and
>> returns a set of CSS offset values for use by the legend - so each
>> scale range has the same image source but different offsets.
>>
>> I suspect what is going wrong is that the scale_ranges array is
>> somehow the wrong one. We need to know what sequence is causing
>> this. Is LoadScaleRanges being called before LoadMap finishes? Or
>> are you programmatically changing maps while loading them or between
>> loading and calling LoadScaleRanges?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> On 2009-10-26, at 10:38 AM, Nolte, Tim wrote:
>>
>>> Last week I had posted about a problem with my legend icons not
>>> showing
>>> up. I have multiple MapServer mapfiles defined. I'm not sure if the
>>> problem I'm having is solely related to having multiple mapfiles or
>>> that
>>> I recently updated to the latest Fusion trunk. I can say that the
>>> problem with the legend icons is because of an error in
>>> layers\MapServer\php\LoadScaleRanges.php, the section that it is
>>> having
>>> a problem with is:
>>>
>>> $oImg = $oClass->createLegendIcon($nIconWidth, $nIconHeight);
>>>
>>> This is failing with the error:
>>>
>>> Fatal error: Call to a member function createLegendIcon() on a
>>> non-object
>>>
>>> If I change the code to make sure that '$oClass' is not NULL then
>>> legend
>>> icons do get created but they are not being created correctly. I'm
>>> not
>>> sure if this is something where I need to use a different built-in
>>> function to use one of the default Fusion layer icons? If anyone has
>>> any
>>> ideas it would be a big help.
>>>
>>> - Tim
>>>
>>> ----
>>> Timothy J Nolte - tnolte at ilpcs.com
>>> Network Planning Engineer
>>>
>>> iPCS Wireless, Inc.
>>> 4717 Broadmoor Ave, Suite G
>>> Kentwood, MI 49512
>>>
>>> Office: 616-656-5163
>>> PCS: 616-706-2438
>>> Fax: 616-554-6484
>>> Web: www.ipcswirelessinc.com
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