[mapserver-users] GEOMTRANSFORM not working on "notices"

[thomas bonfort]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 16:06, Flavio Hendry <flavio at tydac.ch> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> A notice can be defined as follows (see http://mapserver.org/faq.html):
>
> LAYER
>  NAME "copyright"
>  STATUS ON
>  TYPE annotation
>  TRANSFORM ll #set the image origin to be lower left
>  FEATURE
>    POINTS
>      60 -10 #set the offset from lower left position in pixels
>    END
>    TEXT "Š xyz company 2006" #this is your displaying text
>  END
>  CLASS
>    LABEL #defines the font, colors etc. of the text
>      FONT "sans"
>      TYPE TRUETYPE
>      SIZE 8
>      BUFFER 1
>      COLOR 0 0 0
>      BACKGROUNDCOLOR 255 255 255
>      FORCE TRUE
>    END
>  END
>  UNITS PIXELS #sets the units for the feature object
> END
>
> BACKGROUNDCOLOR on labels is deprecated in V6 (who knows why ..., love this
> backward compatibility)
<rant>
I guess the folks who spent some time implementing this know better
than you then... It's not like we are obliging you to upgrade, so this
disparaging attitude is not appreciated.
</rant>

> ... and replaced by "GEOMTRANSFORM", therefore the
> new syntax is:
>
> LAYER
>  NAME "copyright"
>  STATUS ON
>  TYPE annotation
>  TRANSFORM ll #set the image origin to be lower left
>  FEATURE
>    POINTS
>      60 -10 #set the offset from lower left position in pixels
>    END
>    TEXT "Š xyz company 2006" #this is your displaying text
>  END
>  CLASS
>    LABEL #defines the font, colors etc. of the text
>      FONT "sans"
>      TYPE TRUETYPE
>      SIZE 8
>      BUFFER 1
>      COLOR 0 0 0
>        STYLE
>        GEOMTRANSFORM 'labelpoly'
>        COLOR 255 255 255
>        OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
>        WIDTH 10
>        END
>      FORCE TRUE
>    END
>  END
>  UNITS PIXELS #sets the units for the feature object
> END
>
> However, it does not work .....

what does "not work" mean? those keywords mean you are drawing a very
thick red outline around the polygon, is that intended?

--
Thomas

>
> Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best regards
> Flavio Hendry
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