SWIG mapscript request/bug? - WORKAROUN D

[Lowell Filak]

The following message was sent by "Ryan, Adam" <ARyan at CO.LINN.OR.US> on
Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:25:58 -0800.

> > -----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.

Adam,

I confused it, forget I said anything. I shouldn't have replied until
the novocain wears off.

Lowell