Defining simple symbols

[Fawcett, David]

Dave, 

Do you have a symbols.sym file that contains a symbol definition named
'circle'?  Is there a SYMBOLSET line in your map file with the proper
path to your symbol file?  

Alternatively, do you define a symbol named 'circle' directly in your
map file?  

My guess is that MapServer can't find a symbol definition for 'circle'.


David.

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Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Defining simple symbols


I'm having no joy getting off the ground with a simple familiarisation
exercise -- today's headbanger is drawing dots! My layer is:

  LAYER # test query layer
    CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
    NAME          saint_dedications
    #CONNECTION    "user=erdb13 dbname=stdraft host=localhost port=5432"
    CONNECTION    "user=erdb13 dbname=stdraft"
    DATA          "geom from loccoords"
    STATUS        ON
    TYPE          POINT
    CLASS
      NAME        "locations"
      STYLE
      SYMBOL
        NAME      "circle"
        TYPE      ELLIPSE
        FILLED    TRUE
        POINTS    2 2 END
      END
      COLOR       255 0 0
      OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
      END

The data is being fetched OK from the database, because until I put the
SYMBOL definition in, the layer showed tiny red marks (which I want now
to replace with larger red dots). But all I get is:

getSymbol(): Symbol definition error. Parsing error near (NAME):(line
132)

on the line after SYMBOL. Can anyone tell me what's wrong please?