Help Anyone?? Mapserver crash on text Flash (SWF) output... known problem?

[Reuven Levitt]

Part of the problem was solved by using FDB fonts
(Thanks for the tip Yewondwossen).  Ming seg-faults if
TTF are used.
However, I found that I must also not use the
FULL_RESOLUTION=FALSE or TRUE

If this parameter is set no text shows up.

However now that text is showing up it is coming up as
Giberish (nonsence character strings).

Any tips?  Anyone?  Please???

Reuven.




--- Reuven Levitt <reuven at LEVITT.NET> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am relatively new to Mapserver, but have spent the
> last 6 days working around 12 hours a day.  So I am
> definitly getting some experience.  It is an amazing
> piece of software !
>
> The Flash output stuff I wrote works well (including
> the demo on the Mapserver site).  However when I try
> and get Mapserver to output any type of text to
> flash
> output Mapserver simply crashes (On windows XP).
>
> This only happens when
>                 FORMATOPTION "OUTPUT_MOVIE=MULTIPLE"
> however it does not crash with:
>                 FORMATOPTION "OUTPUT_MOVIE=SINGLE"
>
> Crash means windows: "mapserv.exe has encountered a
> problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the
> inconvenience."
>
> I created a very simple test case to see if it still
> crashes, and it does.  Here is the map file:
>
>
> MAP
>         NAME FMV
>         STATUS ON
>         IMAGETYPE swf
>         SIZE 800 600
>         SHAPEPATH      "data"
>         IMAGECOLOR     255 255 255
>         EXTENT -180 -80 180 80
>         FONTSET
> "E:\Dev\Source\web\workshop\fonts\font.list"
>
> #       EXTENT 0 0 20 20
>
>         PROJECTION "proj=latlong" END
>
>         WEB
>                 log "./tmp/fmv.log"
>                 TEMPLATE  'fmv_template.html'
>                 IMAGEPATH './tmp/'
>                 IMAGEURL
> 'http://localhost/workshop/fmv/tmp/'
>         END
>
>
>         OUTPUTFORMAT
>                 NAME swf
>                 DRIVER "SWF"
>                 MIMETYPE
> "application/x-shockwave-flash"
>                 EXTENSION "swf"
>                 IMAGEMODE PC256
>                 FORMATOPTION "OUTPUT_MOVIE=MULTIPLE"
>         END
>
>         LAYER
>                 NAME "credits"
>                 STATUS DEFAULT
>                 TRANSFORM FALSE
>                 TYPE ANNOTATION
>                 FEATURE
>                         POINTS
>                                 10 480
>                         END
>                         TEXT 'Made by Mapserver.'
>                 END
>                 CLASS
>                         LABEL
>                                 TYPE TRUETYPE
>                                 FONT "arial"
>                                 POSITION CR
>                                 COLOR 0 0 0
>                                 SIZE 8
>                         END
>                 END
>         END
> END
>
> All the other files are the ones that come with the
> mapserver flash demo (FMV).
>
> MapServer version 4.2.0 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG
> OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=PDF
>  OUTPUT=SWF SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE
> SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLI
> ENT INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL
> INPUT=SHAPEFILE
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated !
> Also if someone could test this on their setup to
> see
> if it works that would be great.
>
> Thanks
> Reuven.
>