style level transparency

[Steve Lime]

The styleObj now has an opacity parameter, it just isn't used (yet).

Steve

>>> On 6/18/2007 at 6:07 AM, in message <4676675D.3030102 at dmsolutions.ca>,
Yewondwossen Assefa <assefa at DMSOLUTIONS.CA> wrote:
> It seems to be a basic feature with most of the cartographic output 
> packages that I know. The importance for me is that I have had several 
> requests to support style level transparency though SLD.
> 
> Daniel Morissette wrote:
>> I don't remember what the use case was for that, or if one was ever 
>> made, so I don't know whether this is important or not.
>> 
>> Daniel
>> 
>> Yewondwossen Assefa wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>  One of the target feature for the 5.0 release was the support of 
>>> style or class level transparency (at least for GD based formats).
>>>  I had a brief discussion with Steve and after some tests that Steve 
>>> did, my understanding is that this feature can only be supported when 
>>> the output is a 24bit image and we wont be able to support it with the 
>>> current approach for 8 bit images.
>>> Do people feel that this feature is worth for consideration even with 
>>> this limitation ?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>> 
>> 
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