line thickness with circle

[Lowell Filak]

The following message was sent by Jeff Portwine <jdport at VERITIME.COM> on
Mon, 9 May 2005 10:12:05 -0400.

> Not sure if it makes a difference but you could try putting quotes around
> 'circle'.
>
> -Jeff
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "gerard barrington" <gerard_b_18 at HOTMAIL.COM>
> To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 9:50 AM
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] line thickness with circle
>
>
> > Dear list,
> >
> > I am having a problem getting my line thickness adjusted to any size
other
> > thanone pixel.
> > In my symbol file, I have the following symbol:
> >
> >  SYMBOL
> >        NAME 'circle'
> >        TYPE ELLIPSE
> >        FILLED TRUE
> >        POINTS
> >                1 1
> >        END
> >  END
> >
> > and in my map file I have a shapefile of type line that references this
> > symbol:
> >
> > LAYER
> >        NAME "layer"
> >        TYPE LINE
> >        TILEINDEX "C:\layer.shp"
> >        STATUS ON
> >        CLASS
> >                STYLE
> >                        SYMBOL circle
> >                        SIZE 9
> >                END
> >        END
> > END
> >
> > However, this gives me this error:
> >
> > getSymbol(): Symbol definition error. Parsing error near (circle):(line
> > 56)
> >
> >
> > Commenting out "SYMBOL circle" displays a single pixel line
> >
> > Thanks for any advice,

Gerard,

Jeff's probably right. I misinterpreted the parse error to be the wrong
file.

Lowell