MapServer 4.6.0-beta3 released

[Ken Lord]

> 
> Hi Daniel, 
>  I think my case was unusual because I absolutely had to use jpeg output 
> (with interlace off), so that our flash interface could use the map image, 
> and I had to have transparent set to on so that my map symbolizations would 
> work. 
>  My map has polygon features that are symbolized using three styles, a 
> solid fill style on the bottom, a style with an ellipse/vector symbol to 
> create a 'hatch' effect, and a cartoline style on top to give a nice 
> anti-aliased outline to the polygon. The background colour and hatch 
> pattern/colour are different in each class within the layer to reflect 
> dozens of combinations of primary, secondary, and tertiary surficial geology 
> types within that layer's dataset. 
>  Previously without transparent set to on, you couldnt see through the 
> 'blank' parts of the hatch styles to see the solid fill underneath.
>  'Transparent' may not be relevant or allowable for jpeg's, but before 
> 4.6b3, the setting had to be within outputformat to turn transparent on 
> for my symbolizations. Perhaps two unrelated systems were using the same 
> parameter. 
>  Perhaps the documentation just needs a note that transparent is not 
> allowable for jpeg's.
>  It was definately working in 4.6beta2. I have beta2 and beta3 (and older 
> versions) installed in separate folders on our webserver, each with all 
> their associated dll's. To switch a website between the versions I just have 
> to point a virtual folder in the website directory to the appropriate 
> mapserver software folder. 
>  Thanks,
> Ken
>   
> 
>  On 5/31/05, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca> wrote: 
> > 
> > Sending this reply to mapserver-dev instead of -users...
> > 
> > Ken Lord wrote:
> > >
> > > If TRANSPARENT is within the outputformat, mapserver fails and returns 
> > 
> > > the following error message:
> > >
> > > "GD/JPEG OUTPUTFORMAT jpeg has TRANSPARENT set ON, but this is not
> > > supported. It has been disabled."
> > >
> > 
> > Ah! That makes more sense now. Due to the nature of the format, JPEG 
> > does not and cannot support transparency. This is not new to MapServer
> > 4.6, only the more explicit error message may be new.
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > If this was the intended effect, then just the 4.6 documentation needs 
> > 
> > > to be updated for the syntax change.
> > 
> > Since this is just an error message to prevent users from requesting an
> > impossible combination, I don't think there is much to document. I mean
> > I'm not convinced that it would make sense to document all the 
> > impossible combinations of mapfile parameters.
> > 
> > 
> > > I brought this up because the
> > > change was not listed in the revision history in history.txt, and the
> > > mapserver log and our flash interface don't show this error message, 
> > > leaving me to try it out in an HTML template when our flash site 
> > failed.
> > >
> > 
> > Unfortunately the HISTORY.TXT is only as accurate as what the developers
> > make of it. It is possible that some items are missing if some 
> > developers fail to update it, and there is not much I can do about this.
> > 
> > However I did find a note from Frank in the 4.4.0 HISTORY.TXT about this
> > new validation:
> > 
> > - Force GD/JPEG outputFormatObjects to IMAGEMODE RGB and TRANSPARENT OFF 
> > 
> > if they are RGBA or ON. Makes user error such as in bug 1703 less
> > likely.
> > 
> > Are you sure that this was working in 4.6beta2?
> > 
> > Daniel
> > --
> > ------------------------------------------------------------ 
> > Daniel Morissette dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
> > DM Solutions Group http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
> > ------------------------------------------------------------ 
> > 
> 


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