[mapserver-users] User group meeting, a show of hands please!

[Puneet Kishor]

Steve,

I was looking at your mapplet code and found it does not support PNGs.
Neither does DM Soln's Rosa applet.

Searching through the list archives, I found the following message from July
2001.

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I have a version of Steve's mapplet that does support PNG.  Currently, I'm
working finding a preprocessor that will help make the PNG mapplet code
available to everyone.

If you would like, I could forward to you the PNG libraries and mapplet
source code.  All you would need to do is compile the source and put all the
class files in a web accessible directory.

[snip]

> I know that the rosa applet doesn't support png map at this time.
>
> Is there any plan to include png format support to the rosa applet. I'm
not so
> fluent in Java...
>
> I would like to use the applet, but I don't want use either of gif
(licence
> problem) or jpeg format (raster map I have don't render nice with jpeg,
even with
> high quality settings)?
>
> Does the mapplet class support png?
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could you, or someone else, shed more light on this? Is there a version of
either of these Java applets that does work with PNGs? if not, what would it
take to compile that support in?

Many thanks,

pk/