[mapserver-dev] Toronto sprint hopes and dreams

[Brent Fraser]

Excellent! No change to the API.

Have fun at the sprint...

Brent Fraser

Steve Lime wrote:
> I don't like the idea of format specific (only PDF will care about margins) arguments. Why not extend the outputFormatObj (perhaps with a layoutObj)?


> 
>>>> Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com> 03/05/09 9:48 AM >>>
> Thomas (and other render-interested),
> 
>  Regarding the finalizing of the vtable api, I'd like to make some additions to the createImage definition:
> 
>   Current:
>     imageObj* (*createImage)(int map_width, int map_height, outputFormatObj *format, colorObj* bg);
> 
>   Proposed:
>     imageObj* (*createImage)(double page_width,    double page_height, 
>                              double margin_bottom, double margin_left,
>                              int map_width, int map_height, outputFormatObj *format, colorObj* bg); 
> 
> 
> to support the placement of graphics on a page/canvas for high-quality output.  A better solution might be to pass a pointer to a structure (layoutObj?) containing the new four values.
> 
>     And other food for thought (I saw Norman Vine's comment on the Mapserver IRC channel last night saying that 'renderers' should be like device drivers).  If the renderers are to be invoked by vtable entries, what would it take to make them dynamically loaded modules at run-time?
> 
> Thanks!
> Brent Fraser
> 
> 
> thomas bonfort wrote:
>> I'd like to move forward with modularizing the renderer code:
>> - finalize the vtable api
>> - work out how to plug in the raster handling backend
>> and from then on:
>> - decide if we keep the cairo output, and/or whether it replaces the
>> current svg/pdf renderers
>> - port the remaining renderers into the vtable architecture
>>
>> best regards,
>>
>> thomas
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 20:57, Howard Butler <hobu.inc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I just wanted to start a thread for folks to toss around ideas for things
>>> they'd hope to accomplish for the Toronto sprint.  Here's my list:
>>>
>>> - GetFeatureIDColumn vtable method
>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2009-January/008156.html
>>> - A prototype mod_mapserver http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2565
>>> - Finish up website automation items
>>>
>>> What do you hope to start, finish, or work on during your sprint efforts?
>>>
>>> Howard
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