Colors for features

[Brock Anderson]

John,

The first class in your layer doesn't have an EXPRESSION, so all 
features all caught by that class.  If you intent to have that as the 
default class, you should list it after the other classes.

Brock

john wrote:

> I am now able to produce maps using shp2img.
>
> The map file file below produces all lines as green. What do I need to 
> change to
> show features in different colors. I had thought this would produce 
> red, green, and blue
> features depending on the expression. Also, I have had no luck in 
> showing lakes, streams, etc.
>
> All files incuding the TGR and font files are in /usr/testfiles
>
>
> Thanks for any help to keep going
>
> MAP
> SIZE 600 600
> EXTENT -156.682 20.870 -156.675 20.8770
> FONTSET "/usr/testfiles/Fontset.txt"
>
>
>   LAYER                     # Start of LAYER object
>     NAME CompleteChain
>         TYPE LINE
>     STATUS DEFAULT
>     CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
>     CONNECTION "/usr/testfiles"
>
>     LABELITEM "FENAME"
>     CLASS                   # Start of CLASS object
>        COLOR 0 200 0
>         LABEL
>             TYPE TRUETYPE
>             FONT sans-bold
>             BUFFER 7
>             MINFEATURESIZE 0
>             MINDISTANCE 350
>             POSITION CC
>             ANGLE AUTO
>             SIZE 7
>             COLOR 70 70 70
>             PARTIALS false
>             OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
>          END
>     END
>
>
>     CLASSITEM 'CFCC'
>
>           CLASS
>                NAME "City Streets"
>              EXPRESSION /A4/
>              COLOR 200 0 0
>        END                     # End of CLASS object
>
>
>
>        CLASS
>                NAME "Other Streets"
>              EXPRESSION /A[1-3]/
>              COLOR 0 200  0
>        END                     # End of CLASS object
>
>        CLASS
>                NAME "Some Streets"
>              EXPRESSION /A[5-9]/
>              COLOR 0  0 200
>         END                     # End of CLASS object
>
>
>   END                       # End of LAYER object
>
>
>   END