[mapserver-dev] Scalebar transparency and documenation issues

[Steve Lime]

I don't think I saw any replies to this. So... let's see. It looks likes it's still used for raw scalebar image
production as well. So my thought would be to:

  1 - fix the docs and mark it as not being deprecated, it's still useful.
  2 - expose to mapscript (e.g. $scalebar->{transparent} = $mapscript::MS_TRUE;)

Steve

>>> On 1/10/2009 at 6:33 PM, in message
<f3b73b7d0901101633h3cab6511ta2e689031f3ce27a at mail.gmail.com>, "Tamas Szekeres"
<szekerest at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> In the mapfile documentation the SCALEBAR transparent property seems to be
> deprecated, as it says:
> 
> TRANSPARENT [on|off]
> 
> Should the background color for the scalebar be transparent. This flag is
> now deprecated in favor of declaring transparency within
> *OUTPUTFORMAT*<http://mapserver.org/mapfile/outputformat.html#outputformat>dec
> larations.
> Default is off.
> 
> Deprecated since version 4.6.
> 
> 
> However it seems invalid, and the transparency is affected by this parameter
> in msEmbedScalebar.
> 
> What's the score with the transparency currently in this regard? Shouldn't
> we expose the transparent property in the MapScript interface or we have
> some other workaround to set it up?.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Tamas