Solved !! Mapserver crash on text Flash (SWF) output... known problem?

[Reuven Levitt]

Ok it looks like I am having a conversation with
myself, but at least this is all saved so people with
the same problems my find my solutions.

Anyways I found that the FDB fonts on the ming site do
not work for me (I just get a mess).

I found these FDB fonts that do work:
http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/download/fdbfonts.tar.gz

Either way, I now have my test case working, and I can
start working on solving some real world problems.

I am sure I will be asking more questions soon :)

Thanks to everyone for the feedback and help,
Reuven.


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

> 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.
> >
>