Scale dependent layers ignoring status property?

[Kevin Grootendorst]

I'm having the exact same problem mentioned below - does anyone know of a
solution to this??

Kevin

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:45:39 -0600, sandnarrows <ken at SANDNARROWS.COM> wrote:

>In my mapfile I have two layers that don't show up till after the users
>zoom in a bit, ie I have set a maxscale and minscale. I am using the
>HTML legend with the opt_flag of 14, so that the layers don't list in
>the legend until they are within the appropriate scale range. Both
>layers have a status of 'ON' in the map file.
>
>The problem I am having is that when you move into the appropriate scale
>range the layer shows up with the status of 'OFF'. If I set the opt_flag
>to 15 so that the layer is always visible in the legend, then it will
>have the appropraite status of 'ON' and when you move into appropriate
>scale range the data will display on the map.
>
>I want to use opt_flag 14 as I don't want the layer in the legend until
>its also visible on the map, but I also want it to listen to the status
>property in the MAP file, which in this case is 'ON'. I also tried
>setting it to 'DEFAULT', no difference still starts out as off (template
>file does handle the default status).
>
>Thoughts or suggestions?
>
>Ken