[mapguide-users] text layer with Capital Letter

[Andy Morsell]

Along the lines of funny code comments, this is my favorite.  It is from
OgcWmsService.config.awd
 
<!-- Hack!- these are guard values in case the Layer.Bounds property 
      is not well formed; Studio is offering zero data validation on 
      its input via the UI.  Of course, this isn't a perfect solution
      either, but it guards against the most likely cases.  If somebody
      types in a badly-formed <Bounds /> element that isn't EPSG:4326
      then the whole enchilada is serious GIGO. -->
 
Back on topic, I agree, it would be nice to see support for many more
standard SQL functions in MapGuide or FDO (probably the better place to
handle it).  That was one nice thing about MG 6.5, as long as SQL for
whatever database flavor you were hitting supported it, it generally worked.

Andy 


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[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jason Birch
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 9:29 PM
To: MapGuide Users Mail List
Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] text layer with Capital Letter


Hey :(
 
That wasn't any fun.  There's nothing terribly interesting in there other
than maybe the URLENCODE function and a funny comment I ran into:
 
//TODO: GEOMETRY! yay!
 
:)
 
DECAP really seems random; you must have needed it for something.
 
Where can these function be applied?  I'm guessing that there is no way to
apply them to the Properties dialog, so that leaves maptips and label
expressions?  Did I miss anything?

I'd love to see the other obvious case functions, an IIF() function, a bunch
of Regex stuff, more string handling (len, substr, etc).  Is MapGuide the
best place to do this?  These functions would be useful for output, but
quite a few would also be useful for creating attribute filters in queries.

Jason
 
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