Turning on and off labels

[listuser HH]

Stuart Eve wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to use Mapscript to turn off labels 'on-demand'. I have my 
> label information set up in my mapfile - but this means that they are 
> always drawn. I want to retain that information in the mapfile (rather 
> than recreating the whole thing with Mapscript), so was wondering if 
> there was a way to tell Mapserver if they should be drawn or not 
> (without turning the whole layer off!). I have tried using a 'STATUS 
> OFF' within the label tags, but that doesn't work (of course!).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Stu
>
Hi,

I'm not sure if this is what you want but you can make a layer for the 
data and a separate one for the labels then you can turn them on or off.

Regards,

Norbert