ShadowColor for labels in SWF output

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

Laurent,

  There is a bug tracking this: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2137
  You could maybe add your self in cc on it.

Later,

Laurent B wrote:
> Hi
> I'm new to this list, and I apologize if I don't follow list rules I 
> don't know yet...
> 
> I wanted some fancy outline on labels in my swfs like in my png output, 
> but i wasn't able to do so, neither was I able to set a background on 
> the labels.
> If anyone knows a way, please give me a lead I'd be happy to do it...
> anyway, I ended adding a shadow of size 1 on labels where a shadowcolor 
> is set in the mapfile.
> 
> If anyone is interested... maybe some comments, to fit the code better 
> in mapserver source.
> thank you all
> here follows the diff from my mapswf.c
> 
> Laurent
> (a french guy trying to write english)
> 
> 2017a2018
>>     colorObj    sShadowColor;
> 2019a2021
>>     SWFText     oShadowText = NULL;
> 2020a2023
>>     int        drawShadow = 0; /* flag : do we need to draw shadow or 
>> not */
> 2076a2080,2082
>>     sShadowColor.red = 0;
>>     sShadowColor.green = 0;
>>     sShadowColor.blue = 0;
> 2090,2095d2095
> <     else if (MS_VALID_COLOR(label->shadowcolor))
> <     {
> <         sColor.red = label->shadowcolor.red;
> <         sColor.green = label->shadowcolor.green;
> <         sColor.blue = label->shadowcolor.blue;
> <     }
> 2100a2101,2109
>>     /* check if a shadow color was defined */
>>     if (MS_VALID_COLOR(label->shadowcolor))
>>     {
>>         sShadowColor.red = label->shadowcolor.red;
>>         sShadowColor.green = label->shadowcolor.green;
>>         sShadowColor.blue = label->shadowcolor.blue;
>>         // then draw one
>>         drawShadow = 1;
>>     }
> 2107a2117,2130
>>
>>     /* first  draw the shadow with a x+1,y+1 position */
>>     if (drawShadow) {
>>     oShadowText = DrawText(string, 0, 0, msBuildPath(szPath, 
>> fontset->filename, font), size, &sShadowColor);
>>         if (oShadowText)
>>         {
>>             SWFDisplayItem oShadowDisplay;
>>             /* nTmp = ((SWFObj *)image->img.swf)->nCurrentMovie; */
>>             oShadowDisplay = SWFMovie_add(GetCurrentMovie(map, image), 
>> oShadowText);
>>             SWFDisplayItem_moveTo(oShadowDisplay, (float)x + 1, 
>> (float)y + 1);
>>             SWFDisplayItem_rotate(oShadowDisplay, (float)label->angle);
>>         }
>>     }
>>     /* then draw the text */
> 2111c2134
> <          SWFDisplayItem oDisplay;
> ---
>>          SWFDisplayItem oDisplay;
> 2117d2139
> <
> 
> 
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