SWF output developpement history and plan question

[Javier Castillejo Montes]

Hi there

I don't know so much about the improvements/additions to hte swf module...  even more I don't know so much about Falsh, but here at my office we are trying to develop an app using mapserver whit the swf output.

We are not working full time on "mapserver-swf" 'cos our manager want first "mapserver/html" ended and ready to work. But our next step is to work with "mapserver-swf" (... actually I'm working in both ... :-) )

We don't know all the difficulties we will find due to our "non-experience" in flash but what it's sure is that we will attempt it. We are really interested in try with "mapserver-swf" as it provides us some usefull way to work with and our workers will be happy if we resolve our needs through "mapserver-swf". 

Our mapserver-html interface is quite nice, but when we showed our smalls progress in mapserver-swf, the mapserver-html option decrease in relevance.

I know that we are only one user, but we will need help on this... so much help I think as they are not going to give us any kind of "flash curse" :-/, as usual

Any way... we will try. In fact we have one big problem not resolve yet, we work with "air photos", high quality. But we cannot show them with "swfoutput"(the quality is very poor) so we have will calculate the next scale that the user has selected and change the output format to "jpgoutput". I asked it before, I think.

Resuming, we will try with a full-time mapserver-swf attempt in the next two weeks.

Idon't know if it's relevant but we use Oracle_Spatial which has some others problems wity the "DATA" statement in the map file as far as I can remember, for example.

Best Regards

Javier

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Yewondwossen Assefa [mailto:assefa at DMSOLUTIONS.CA]
Enviado el: martes, 23 de noviembre de 2004 16:52
Para: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Asunto: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] SWF output developpement history and
plan question


I guess It is a combination of the things that you listed, the main
reason being that no customers/users have showed interest in finacing
improvements/additions to the module. We try to maintain the module to
an accptable level and do major bug corrections but no major development
is scheduled AFAIK.

Best Regards,

GIRAUD Pierre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looking at the mapserver changelog text file, one can see that there has
> actually been no real update for swf output since the early 2003.
>
> Is there any reason for that :
> - no customer's demand needing that developpement ?
> - no improvements, upgrades of the ming library ?
> - no great interests to use flash outputs (MapServer/Ming performances,
> heavy files, ...) ?
> - technical limits ?
> - ...
>
> Thx
>
> Pierre GIRAUD
> camptocamp.com
>


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