[Mapserver-dev] creating some default symbols

Yewondwossen Assefa assefa at dmsolutions.ca
Wed Jun 16 11:53:03 EDT 2004


The code is in mapogcsld.c. As I mentionned, they were only created when 
using sld and a reference to the symbol inside the sld. So I guess the 
code have to be moved to the proper location.

Later,

Steve Lime wrote:

> I didn't see them when looking through the code, at least not in a place
> where they would
> be generally useful to CGI and MapScript. They should be added when a
> symbol set is initialized.
> Thanks for the tip though, I'll poke around a bit more...
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
>>>>pagameba at magma.ca 6/15/2004 10:35:26 PM >>>
> 
> I'm pretty sure Assefa added this for SLD support so the symbols are 
> probably already built in.  I suspect he used names like 
> 'sld_mark_square' for them, though.  It might be nice if all this 
> symbology stuff was consolidated :>
> 
> Sean Gillies wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Jun 15, 2004, at 4:59 PM, Steve Lime wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Anyone see a problem with creating some basic symbols (circle,
> 
> square,
> 
>>>triangle, star) when the symbolFileObj is initialized? Users could
>>>reference them by names like _circle or _star so as not to break
> 
> old
> 
>>>apps. Then we could do things like using the built-in circle in
> 
> cases
> 
>>>when a user specifies a size but no symbol.
>>>
>>>Steve
>>
>>
>>According to the SLD spec, well known symbol names are "square",
> 
> "circle",
> 
>>"triangle", "star", "cross", and "x".
>>
>>Sean
>>
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