[Mapserver-dev] Re: Rendering engine enhancements

[Steve Lime]

We chatted with Arnulf outside the last session at MUM. Frank drew some
pictures in a notebook and I promptly slapped my forehead...

Steve

>>> Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca> 7/19/2004 2:44:48 PM
>>>
Steve Lime wrote:
> 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.

Is the problem only related to the white corners you would get when 
rotating the symbol or is there something else I didn't think of. When

did Frank send that message you refer to? I don't remember seeing it.

> A hatched symbol type
> could still leverage
> brushes and patterns (basically anything you could do with a line
> symbol now)...
> 

ah ok... that would be nice.

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

I didn't know we could rotate PIXMAP symbols, I'll have to give that a
try.

Daniel
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