SWIG mapscript request/bug? - WORKAROUN D

[Ryan, Adam]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lowell Filak [mailto:lfilak at MEDINACO.ORG]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 7:04 AM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] SWIG mapscript
> request/bug? - WORKAROUND
>
>
> The following message was sent by Sean Gillies
> <sgillies at FRII.COM> on Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:05:05 -0700.
>
> > On Jan 25, 2005, at 5:30 PM, Ryan, Adam wrote:
> >
> > > And the workaround is...
> > >
> > > When you're reordering layers AND you want to do a drawQuery(),
> > > reorder the layers and then save the map file and then
> load it again
> > > and then drawQuery().  Ugly.
> > >
> > > Adam
> > >
> >
> > Adam,
> >
> > Brutal, I agree.  But since you are using mapscript you do have the
> > option of programming your own query map.  I don't think
> > msDrawQueryMap does anything that you can't script yourself. Steve
> > Lime has been considering an overhaul of the query map but I am
> > neither sure of the status nor sure that he is looking at
> your issue.
>
> Adam,
>
> I agree with Sean as we have never used the queryMapObj here,
> but rather just another mapObj. There have been a few issues
> that have come up pertaining to the queryMapObj and for a
> spell I thought it should go the way of the DBFInfo object,
> at least as far as the documentation goes for mapscript.
>
> Lowell
>

Lowell, Sean, et al.

Now you guys are confusing me.  First of all, I don't know how to display
only a set of features quickly other than manipulating the resultCache
(querying or loading a query file) and then doing a mapObj.drawQuery().

I'm not using a queryMapObject (at least not directly or consciously), and
I'm not sure what it is.

And if I were to script this myself, do you mean run through each layer and
do a layerObj.drawQuery()?  I guess that's easy enough.  And that way I
could get around the whole ordering issue.  Wait...this is sounding pretty
good.

Cheers, Adam