[Mapserver-dev] [Fwd: Re: [Mapserver-users] Changing Colors in Map !!]

[Frank Warmerdam]

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Steve, Daniel, et al,
> 
> Have you been following this thread. This is not the first time we have 
> had this discussion with users. It is a major hassle and waste of 
> peoples time. There was some discussion about having mapserver just do 
> this behind the scenes, ie: to load explicitly defined colors into the 
> look color table before implicitly defined colors like in rasters ate up 
> all the color slots.
> 
> something like ...
> 
> 1) load COLOR statements first
> 2) load symbol colors next
> 3) load raster colors last
> 
> It has at least one bug # 306, there might be others that are related to 
> this.
> 
> It would be great is someone had time to fix this issue before the next 
> release.

Folks,

I concur that this problem is a major thorn and should be resolved as soon
as possible.  I don't know that loading raster colors ahead of time would
be practical unless they are defined in class declarations.

Best regards,
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