[mapserver-users] Label wrapping question

[Dejan Gambin]

Hi Jukka,

If you remember, I've sent the screen captures. I am just interested if this change makes sense and do you plan to embed it in the future versions? 

Like I said, this is just the proof of concept. I didn't make change for label->encoding part, and also, it currently crashes in certain situation if I have a word in label text longer than maxlength. It should all be revised and modified.

Thanks very much

regards, dejan
On 24. ruj. 2014., at 15:15, Rahkonen Jukka (Tike) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Send us some screen captures  of wrapped labels before and after your change. I feel that your change would make sense.
> 
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
> 
> Dejan Gambin wrote:
> 
>> In the meantime, I have slightly changed msWrapText() function in maplabel.c to
>> get what I wanted. If someone is interested I can share the short piece of code.
>> 
>> regards, dejan
>> 
>> 
>> On 23. ruj. 2014., at 12:32, Dejan Gambin wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I have some users wishing to use long legend labels, but they don't fit well on
>> my site. As I can see, MapServer is doing this - if maxlength > 0 and wrap = 'char'
>> (usually space), insert a new line at the FIRST wrap character found AFTER
>> maxlength character. This is leading to some bad results (label not wrapped or
>> wrapped too early).
>>> 
>>> My question is - shouldn't it be better to wrap at the LAST wrap character
>> BEFORE maxlength character? Is this maybe implemented somewhere or there
>> are plans for this?
>>> 
>>> Thanks very much
>>> 
>>> regards, dejan
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