[Mapserver-dev] Error Messages

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

Steve,

Thank you for the suggestions, I will dig around my notes again and 
see what I can find out. And thanks to the others that offered 
suggestions. I'm sure I can figure it out with a little elbow grease 
and the good support this lists provides.

But I do not think my point should be over looked! 

The POINT is that is should not be this hard for me as a 
knowledgeable and regular user of mapserver, it is no wonder others 
get stuck on this stuff.

I know the arguments for keeping mapserver lean and mean and as fast 
as possible, I would be happy having a developers version and a 
production version that #ifdef error messages or something that tells 
me WHY? I got an error.

Anyway, the developers are doing a great job (BETTER ERROR MESSAGES 
PLEASE), so don't let my rant make you think otherwise, I'm trying to 
be an advocate for the users which we are getting more and more of.

Thanks,
  -Steve

On 19 Jun 2003 at 11:53, Steve Lime wrote:

> I thought the PHP version could leverage the error stack that Dan
> added? Also you can set the MS_ERROR environment variable and all
> errors will be echoed to the file named in the env variable. There
> probably is a meaningful error message being generated but it's being
> overridden by a more generic one. I know that's the case in the
> msDraw... function.
> 
> Steve 
> 
> Stephen Lime
> Data & Applications Manager
> 
> Minnesota DNR
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> 
> >>> Dylan Keon <keon at nacse.org> 06/19/03 02:31AM >>>
> woodbri at swoodbridge.com wrote:
> > This is very frustrating. I pointed the symbolset to another working
> 
> > symbolset file in it worked great, but I still haven't a clue why
> > this other file does not work, or what line is a problem, or
> > anything. In fact I commented out 99% of the file and it still had
> > problems so I not even sure if it can access the file or it is
> > something in the file. A core file would be more useful!
> 
> Steve,
> 
> IIRC, I had the same problem a few months ago.  I think I discovered
> that images listed in the symbols file need to have absolute paths. 
> It
> 
> must have been when I switched to 3.7, because prior to that relative
> paths worked fine for me.
> 
> --Dylan
> 
> 
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