[mapserver-users] Displaying a string instead of a label

[Adrian Popa]

Thank you Charlotte,

I will give it a try!

Regards,
Adrian

Charlotte Declercq wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> You can set the TEXT property of the CLASS object like this :
>
> CLASS
>  NAME "departement"
>  LABEL
>    ANGLE 0.000000
>    ANTIALIAS TRUE
>    FONT "Arial"
>    MAXSIZE 256
>    MINSIZE 4
>    SIZE 8
>    TYPE TRUETYPE
>    BUFFER 0
>    COLOR 0 0 0
>    FORCE FALSE
>    MINDISTANCE -1
>    MINFEATURESIZE -1
>    OFFSET 1 1
>    PARTIALS TRUE
>    POSITION CC
>    SHADOWCOLOR 0 0 0
>  END
>  STYLE
>    ANGLE 360
>    COLOR 232 246 9
>    OPACITY 100
>    SIZE 10
>    SYMBOL "Carre"
>  END
>  TEXT "my static text"
> END
>
> It will override the label. You don't need CLASSITEM, LABELITEM, 
> LABELMAXSCALEDENOM and LABELMINSCADENOM but you need the LABEL object.
> The documentation is here : http://mapserver.org/mapfile/class.html
>
> /TEXT [string]/
>    /Static text to label features in this class with. This overrides
>    values obtained from the LABELTIEM. The string may be given as an
>    expression delimited using the ()’s. This allows you to concatenate
>    multiple attributes into a single label. For example:
>    ([FIRSTNAME],[LASTNAME])./
>
>
> I think you can set the TEXT property on classical layer types such as 
> POLYGON, LINE, POINT, not only ANNOTATION.
> If you use ANNOTATION, then the text will be placed at the centroid of 
> the polygon of the middle of the line.
>
> Regards,
>