[mapserver-users] label sizes not scaling

[Ben Madin]

G'day all,

using mapserver 5.4 as a WMS server (to an openlayers application) I  
don't seem to be able to get any scaling of labels.

If I set SIZE 10, they are 10 pixel. If I don't set any size params,  
they are 4. If I set minsize, they are minsize (but the ALIGN is  
poor). if I set minsize 8 and size 10, they are size 10 and the ALIGN  
is pretty good.

I'm actually projecting a network graph, so it would be good to be  
able to see the priority labels when zoomed out, and the others when  
zoomed in, but at a legible (and sensible) size.

I'm not sure where to start - is it MapServer, WMS, OpenLayers, or a  
false sense I had that this was how it should work...

cheers

Ben

(Mapfile layer (it's postgis):

         NAME "titles"
         DEBUG 2
         GROUP "Nodes"
         SIZEUNITS PIXELS
         METADATA
             layer_title "titles"
             layer_order "1"
			"wms_title" "titles"
			"wms_srs"             "EPSG:4326"
			"wms_group_title" "Nodes"
         END
         DATA "polys FROM (
         		SELECT n.id, n.title, n.description, colourhex, n.geom,  
n.rating,
         		setsrid(n.polygeom, 4326) as polys
         		FROM nodes n
         		LEFT OUTER JOIN categories c
         		ON n.category::int = c.id
         		AND c.del = 0
         		WHERE n.del = 0
				AND n.graphid = %GRAPHID%
         ) AS foo USING UNIQUE id USING srid=4326"
         TYPE ANNOTATION
         STATUS ON
         LABELITEM "title"
         LABELCACHE ON
         CLASS
             LABEL
             	MAXLENGTH 7
             	WRAP " "
             	ALIGN center
             	BUFFER 5
             	MINSIZE 8
             	SIZE 10
             	MAXSIZE 24
                 COLOR		0 40 0
                 PRIORITY [rating]
                 PARTIALS	FALSE
                 TYPE		TRUETYPE
                 FONT		lucida
             END
          END
)

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