[Mapserver-users] get inline features (aka getShape())

[Sean Gillies]

On Jan 21, 2004, at 10:11 AM, Christoph Spoerri wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I was looking for a mapserver developers list, but the web site seemes 
> to be
> down, so I decided to post here.
>
> My (solved) problem was to get inline features I added to the map. 
> Later on, I
> needed to access those feature for some manipulation and coping. 
> Since, I
> wasn't able to use getShape() on the layer with the inline feature, I 
> added
> this capability to the getShape() method of the layer 'class'. In 
> addition, I
> added a function called getNumFeatures(), which returns the number of 
> inline
> features.
>
> I was now wondering, if this functions could/should be added to the 
> mapserver
> in general. Is there a need for them? (I had one ;) )
>
> cheers,
> Christoph
>

Cristoph,

Send me a patch and I'll see about getting it into MapScript.

Sean


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