[Mapserver-users] map drop shadow effect

Dan Barron dbarron at ddive.com
Wed Jul 9 17:28:58 EDT 2003


Follow-up to an old post.

In the latest version of MapServer has there been any further developments 
in creating drop shadow effects for polygons?

Thanks,

Dan

At 04:44 PM 2/25/2003 -0600, Steve Lime wrote:
>For entire maps there are lots of ways to do it using images or even
>DHTML layers.
>
>For elements within a map:
>
>   - labels: already support shadows using SHADOWSIZE, SHADOWCOLOR
>   - features: 3.7 adds styles which allows you to add shadows to any
>feature (all feature types except polygons currently working)
>
>For example,
>
>LAYER
>   NAME 'LINE_SHADOW'
>   ...
>   STYLE
>     COLOR 128 128 128
>     OFFSET -1 -1
>   END
>   STYLE
>     COLOR 255 0 0
>   END
>END
>
>will give you red lines with a grey drop shadow. Remember styles are
>rendered in order so you must specify the shadow first.
>
>HTH- Steve
>
> >>> Dan Barron <dbarron at ddive.com> 02/25/03 04:28PM >>>
>Hi,
>
>Has anyone developed a simple method for creating a drop shadow effect
>for
>maps and symbols via mapserver?  There are a couple older posts on this
>
>topic, but thought it might be worth another query on the subject.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dan
>
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