workshop error

[R. Paul Warriner]

Thanks Steve

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 17:27:15 -0600
>From: Steve Lime
<steve.lime at DNR.STATE.MN.US>
>Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS]
workshop error
>To: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
>
>Note that I've fixed the workshop site
at the DNR and have rebuilt the
>zip file. Problem should be fixed now.
>
>Steve
>
>>>> Frank Warmerdam
<warmerdam at POBOX.COM> 11/4/2004 7:27:49
PM >>>
>R. Paul Warriner wrote:
>> Hello Ethan,
>>
>> Interesting, keeping in mind I am
>> novice, I commented out the second NAME
>> instance, and voila; it worked.
>>
>> Funny, 4.2 didn't care, but 4.4 does.
>>
>> It is the workshop - itasca.map file,
>> with the 3rd line "NAME cities":
>>   LAYER
>>     NAME mcd90py2_anno
>>     NAME cities
>>     TYPE ANNOTATION
>>     DATA mcd90py2
>>     STATUS OFF
>>     LABELITEM "city_name"
>>     CLASSITEM "city_name"
>>     LABELMAXSCALE 500000
>>     CLASS
>>       EXPRESSION /./
>>       LABEL
>>         COLOR 0 0 0
>>         SHADOWCOLOR 218 218 218
>>         SHADOWSIZE 2 2
>>         TYPE BITMAP
>>         SIZE MEDIUM
>>         POSITION CC
>>         PARTIALS FALSE
>>         BUFFER 2
>>       END
>>     END
>
>Paul,
>
>Sean pointed out that there was a bug
fix related to this.  In 4.4 we
>try
>to error out on multiple defined values
for stuff like NAME.  It is an
>improvement ... really!  In the past
the first name was ignored and
>the
>second was used but if the second was
far down in a complex layer
>definition
>it would be easy to miss it and not
know why referring to the layer by
>it's
>first name didn't work.
>
>Best regards,
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