[Mapserver-users] Labeling question

[Zamil Murji]

Hello,

I tried the TEXT option for a class, but it doesn't do anything. Here is the offending layer:
LAYER
   NAME "rasterlogs"
   TYPE point
   STATUS off
   MAXSCALE 800000
   CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
   CONNECTION "user=idc dbname=idc host=idcmap port=5432"
   DATA "the_geom from main_well1"
   FILTER "raster_log = 'Y'"
   CLASSITEM uwi
   CLASS
#     COLOR 255 0 0
#     SYMBOL 6
#     SIZE 11
    TEXT "5"
    LABEL
     COLOR 0 0 0
     TYPE TRUETYPE
     FONT wells
     FORCE on
     SIZE 12
     POSITION cc
     MAXSIZE 12
     MINSIZE 12
    END
   END
   PROJECTION
     "init=epsg:4269"
   END
END

If I comment the TEXT and LABEL and uncomment the symbol then everything works fine. Right now it is bringing back a blank image.
Any thoughts?

Zamil

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Lime [mailto:steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 11:11 PM
To: Zamil Murji; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Labeling question


There is a TEXT option for a class that sets a static label to be used
for all features in that class. That way you don't need a labelitem.

Steve

>>> "Zamil Murji" <Zamil.Murji at divestco.com> 07/26/04 4:52 PM >>>
Hello list,

I am currently using a symbol to display a postgis layer. I want to give
the user the ability to display any character from a special font file
that we have. Is there a way to force a layer to display a certain
character. 

I know you can do LABELITEM and give it a column in the db to reference
for the character (this works btw), but I want to write it into the map
file so that it is easy to change. I also don't want to have 500000
redundant rows because if I have to change that character then I have to
write an update function instead of just changing the .map file.

Any ideas?
Zamil

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