[Mapserver-dev] Re: Add shape id's in the selection

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

 I did not realize that there were functions to save and load a query. That
is exactly what I needed. I just need to expose these functions to
mapscripit and I will be able to use them.

Thanks,

Steve Lime wrote:

> That's exactly why cached queries exist. Id's are written out to a file
> and then reused in lieu of doing
> a new query. Have you looked into those? I've used them in a couple of
> circumstances and they
> work quite nicely.
>
> Steve
>
> >>> Yewondwossen Assefa <assefa at dmsolutions.ca> 02/14/03 08:27AM >>>
> Hi There,
>
>  I was looking into how to keep selected elements between page
> submits.
> What I want is to be able to show the selections (using draw query)
> after a page has submitted without doing each time a query.  In some
> applications, peopole want to do a query and do some panning, zooming
> without their query being lost.
>
>  I was thinking of adding a couple of utility functions to add shpes
> id's to a resultcached used during the query. It will be less costly
> in
> time to use these functions instead of redoing the query every time.
>
> Do You think It is a useful ? Any comments/objections ?
>
> Later,
>
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Assefa Yewondwossen
Software Analyst

Email: assefa at dmsolutions.ca
http://www.dmsolutions.ca/

Phone: (613) 565-5056 (ext 14)
Fax:   (613) 565-0925
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