[Mapserver-dev] Re: Rendering engine enhancements

[Steve Lime]

I think it's a good idea but I think we still need both. MapServer
vector symbols are turned into
bitmaps on-the-fly and then used as tiled fill (or brush). Consequently
(as Frank pointed out) only a few
hatching patterns are possible using this scheme. A hatched symbol type
could still leverage
brushes and patterns (basically anything you could do with a line
symbol now)...

I believe rotated PIXMAPs are already supported. If I recall Brent
Frasier and his staff contributed
that patch a while back.

Steve

>>> Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca> 7/15/2004 4:43:54 PM
>>>
Steve Lime wrote:
> Frank had talked about creating a special symbol type called 'hatch'
> and
> dealing with it that way. It would be analogous to TYPE PIXMAP.
Bigger
> problem is getting the angle from the database, not hard just impacts
a
> lot
> of time. 

How'bout supporting roation of any type of symbols?  I think that would

be a better investment than creating a custom hatch symbol type.

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=533 

Daniel
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