RE:[mapserver-users] Mapfile Editor - MSCompanion version 1.0 beta2is available

Thu Apr 16 19:04:18 PDT 2009

Nelson Correia,

Thank you very much for your information, I will try my best to get rid of the bugs you mentioned, and resolve the rest problems in the coming version by enhancement.

And, some words to explain some problems item by item:
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>Regarding the preview problem, the preview is now shown on the layer tree, but it still doesn't appear on the "Style Properties" dialog. I hit the preview button, but nothing happens.
about  preview problem, it is caused by the invalid path of layer data, if MSCompanion can not figure out where the data is, this problem could happen.  You are encouraged to use the dialogs to set the paths of layers specifics, and save the result, problems should disapear next time you open the saved file. 
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>I am tracking some bug, problems and features I find useful and here are them:

>- I always have to change the map properties to use absolute paths and then to use relative paths again, in order to use MSCompanion. This 
>is a little bit annoying, since I have to do this every time I start MSCompanion.
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I suggest you use absolute paths and save it, next time you may need not do that again. But I will try to repeat the problem and find a resolution.
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>- When I edit a layer/class and cancel my edition, why do it redraw the map? I have several large shapefiles and it is stressfull when I 
>cancel my changes and still have to wait a few seconds to continue working.
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Yes, that's a problem now, I will fix it.
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>- The mouse scroll doesn't work pretty well on the MapFile text editor.
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Yes, it's true. Frankly I don't find a way to satisfy myself by now, as a compensation, you can use the scroll bar by the time.
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>- The update button on the text editor became desabled when I click it and then cancel the update.
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I will test it.
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>- The layers tree is not updated when I add a class/layer through the text editor.
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Yes, when you update the mapfile by text editor, you must reopen the file to view the changes on map.
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>- I think it should be a way of updating the information from the mapfile, for exemple to allow us to edit it with an external editor and 
>see the changes in MSCompanion without restarting it.
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Good suggestion, but in my mind it is a little difficult by now, I will consider that in the future versions. 
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>- The styles in MSCompanion allow us to define a min and max scale for them, but I didn't find any support for it in the MapServer 
>documentation and it doesn't seem to work. Is it a bug?
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I got this from http://www.mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-45.html?highlight=rfc, but I don't know if it is implemented.
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>- I think that would be very useful the ability to do pan on the map. Currently it is a little bit difficult to change the view port 
>mantaining the scale.

You are correct, I will do that.

Thanks again.

Best regards,
Enri
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>Best regards,
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>Nelson Correia
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>> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:08:26 +0800
>> From: zhox at 163.com
>> To: nelsonwc7 at hotmail.com
>> CC: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Mapfile Editor - MSCompanion version 1.0beta2 is available
>> 
>> Nelson Correia,
>> 
>> The release candidate 1 of MSCompanion version1.0 is available now, the problems these days occured should be fixed now. Please get it at http://code.google.com/p/mscompanion/ again. 
>> 
>> Enri
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>> 
>> ======= 2009-04-16 02:18:00 you wrote：=======
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>> >
>> >No, there isn't any problem when I do that. And the problems I've reported don't happen with the alpha 3 version.
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>> >
>> >Nelson Correia
>> > 
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>> >
>> >Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:38:45 +0800
>> >From: enri at 163.com
>> >To: nelsonwc7 at hotmail.com
>> >Subject: Re:FW: [mapserver-users] Mapfile Editor - MSCompanion version 1.0 beta2 is available
>> >
>> >
>> >Hi, Nelson Correia,
>> > 
>> >Are you sure the paths are correct? And is there any problem about the mapfile content edit when you shift from map window to it?
>> > 
>> >Thanks for you information.
>> > 
>> >Best regards,
>> >Enri
>> >
>> >
>> >在2009-04-15，"Nelson Correia" <nelsonwc7 at hotmail.com> 写道：
>> >
>> >
>> > Oh, I've just noticed that this preview doesn't appear either on the Style Properties dialog.
>> > 
>> >Nelson Correia
>> > 
>> >
>> >
>> >From: nelsonwc7 at hotmail.com
>> >To: enri at 163.com
>> >Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Mapfile Editor - MSCompanion version 1.0 beta2 is available
>> >Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:19:09 +0000
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 
>> >Hi,
>> > 
>> >The new version now runs properly without those exceptions I've mentioned.
>> > 
>> >So far I've encountered one problem (relative to the version I was using): it doesn't show the preview of the class styles on the left menu. It now shows the same arrow that the one that indicates the selected item of the menu. I think that the preview of the style is very usefull, specially when you have lots of layers, each one with several classes.
>> > 
>> >Nelson Correia
>> > 
>> >
>> >
>> >Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:39:24 +0800
>> >From: enri at 163.com
>> >To: nelsonwc7 at hotmail.com
>> >Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Mapfile Editor - MSCompanion version 1.0 beta2 is available
>> >
>> >
>> >Nelson Correia,
>> >
>> >Could you please download MSCompanion-debug.rar at
>> >http://groups.google.com/group/mscompanion/web/MSCompanion-debug.rar
>> >to check if the problem is still there?
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >Enri
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >在2009-04-14，"Nelson Correia" <nelsonwc7 at hotmail.com> 写道：
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>> > 
>> >Hi,
>> > 
>> >I've tested both beta 1 and beta 2 on Windows Server 2008 64bit, but I was unable to run them properly. It always give an error: in beta 2 it is an error like the one below and in beta 1 a different error when loading my map file.
>> > 
>> >Currently I am using the alpha 3 version, which is the latest one that I am able to run on my system.
>> > 
>> >Nelson Correia
>> > 
>> >
>> >
>> >Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:39:04 +0800
>> >From: enri at 163.com
>> >To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
>> >Subject: Re:Re: [mapserver-users] Mapfile Editor - MSCompanion version 1.0 beta2 is available
>> >
>> >
>> >Hi,
>> >Could you please tell me the version details of your OS?
>> > 
>> >By the way maybe this link can help you:
>> >http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/lofiversion/index.php/t240.html
>> >
>> >Regards,
>> >Enri.
>> >
>> >在2009-04-14，teeschke <daniel.teske at web.de> 写道：
>> >>
>> >>Hi Enri
>> >>
>> >>sounds realy cool!
>> >>But when I doubleclick the MSCompanion.exe I receive Errors. One of them is 
>> >>"Exception EReadError in module MSCompanion.exe" as 000266F. Error reating RichEdit1.Lines.Strings: RichEdit line insertion error."
>> >>
>> >>thx, Tee
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