[mapserver-dev] Scalebar transparency and documenation issues

[Tamas Szekeres]

Steve,

I've been thinking if there was some specific reason marking this as
deprecated, but OK, I'll do it so if no objection arises.

Best regards,

Tamas



2009/1/16 Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us>

> 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
>
>
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