[mapserver-users] Mapfile Enhancement?

[Alan McNeil]

How about using the same parameter parser as the TEXT command for the COLOR
command? Then you could say something like COLOR [RED] [GREEN] [BLUE]. Probably
the COLOR command should be modified to allow a single hex number (ie 0xFFFFFF)
as a direct specification of the color.

Next thing you know people will be asking for direct specification of Munsell
colors, HSV, and Crayola Crayon colors.

-AL


On Tue, 21 May 2002, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:

> This is another good idea that I had also thought of. I might prove
> interesting if not problematic for mapserver because of limited color
> palette. I though of having a attribute field the contained the hex
> encoded RGB color like in HTML color definitions and then have mapserver
> render the object in that color. So if I had an attribute field say
> "COLOR" that had a value of "FF0000" the object would be rendered in
> red.
> 
> -Steve