Answered my own question using Sean Gillies AWESOME unit tests - again. <a href="http://kentuckykarst.org/mapserver/mapscript/python/tests/cases/fonttest.py">http://kentuckykarst.org/mapserver/mapscript/python/tests/cases/fonttest.py</a><br>
<br> title_layer = mapobject.getLayerByName("title")<br> point = mapscript.pointObj(500, 4)<br> coords = mapscript.lineObj()<br> coords.add(point)<br> feature = mapscript.shapeObj(title_layer.type)<br> feature.add(coords)<br>
feature.text = title_string<br> title_layer.addFeature(feature)<br><br>I also had to comment out the FEATURE section of my mapfile, in order to prevent having 2 entries in the resulting map.<br>--<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Roger André <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:randre@gmail.com">randre@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Everyone,<br><br>A little while ago, Brent Fraser sent me a mapfile snippet that could be used to add a Title to a map using pixel coordinate space. It looked like this:<br><br><span><span> LAYER
<br> NAME title
<br> STATUS DEFAULT
<br> TRANSFORM FALSE
<br> TYPE ANNOTATION
<br><br> FEATURE
<br> POINTS 4 396 END
<br> TEXT 'This is a Great Map!'
<br> END
<br><br> CLASS
<br> LABEL
<br> TYPE TRUETYPE
<br> FONT arial
<br> SIZE 8
<br> ANTIALIAS
<br> COLOR 255 255 255
<br> POSITION UR
<br> END
<br> END
<br><br> END
<br></span></span><br>This works well, but I would like to override the TEXT value using mapscript to create new labels that are based on the result of PostGIS queries. I've been picking apart various examples on the web, but can't seem to come up with the magic sauce. I can figure out how to grab the layer ByName, but then I'm not quite sure what I need to do in order to access the feature and override the TEXT.<br>
<br>Can someone give me a clue?<br><br>Thanks,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Roger<br>
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