[Mapserver-users] Empty screen with .tab file?

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

I have done a couple of tests using php_mapscript_41.dll and tab files 
and here are the results :

   - If I set a full path in the connection string (eg : CONNECTION 
"c:/msapps/nfld_demo/data/nfld/Lakes.TAB") : It works fine

   - If I set a relative path (relative to the map file) in the 
connection string : data/nfld/Lakes.TAB : It works fine

   - If I set a relative path (relative to the shapepath), It works 
fine.  Note that this last case was corrected in the latest versions of 
mapserver and does not work with the current php_mapscript_41.dll 
available on the maptools.org site.  I will do an update this week with 
the latest version.

  I have done these tests using the php_mapscript_41.dll on the 
maptools.org site (and my own version for the last case).

  If the tests you have done follow in the 3rd catagory, please use the 
first 2 ways until the new dll is available. If it is not the case, you 
may want to send me directly your map file and a test tab file so I can 
  test it.


Later,



Daniel Morissette wrote:

> Thomsen, Bo Victor wrote:
> 
>>
>> I'll think there is a bug in the php_mapscript_41.dll regarding the 
>> use of
>> tab files. I've have an MapScript application using tab-files and defined
>> with with full pathnames in the map-file. The environment is win2k and 
>> using
>> the ms4w ver. 0.7 setup. The application works perfectly when using the
>> php_mapscript_40.dll. If I change the mapscript-dll from
>> php_mapscript_40.dll to php_mapscript_41.dll I'll get the following 
>> error:
>>
>>
> 
> Thanks for confirming this Bo, that's exactly the information I was 
> looking for. It must be that there is a problem with Assefa's DLL, 
> either in the MapServer build or in the version of GDAL/OGR that he 
> uses. He is going to check that.
> (Note that I'm able to load .TAB files using php_mapscript_41 on Linux 
> so that rules out the possibility of a MapServer bug.)
> 
> Daniel


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