COLORITEM & kin

[Daniel Morissette]

Attila Csipa wrote:
> Is there interest (as in would you support) development of a COLORITEM (and 
> related BACKGROUNDCOLOR, etc items) functionality ? This would work as 
> LABELITEM and similar attribute related tags. The rationale behind this is 
> that I have maps with too many colours to squeeze them into separate classes, 
> and worse yet, these should (dis)appear dynamically. Or perhaps there is 
> another way of doing this ? I have looked into STYLEITEM and some fancy 
> includes, but they are still not good enough due to the number and dynamic of 
> colours used.

Steve is already working on this for 5.0. See RFC-19:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-19

Daniel
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