My mistake. I was modifying the layer after adding it to the map, so I was dealing with the independent copy that never gets drawn. I really think that this behavior is very confusing, especially to those used to Python.
Thank you for your interest, anyway. I really appreciate the fast responses. El jue, 09-08-2007 a las 13:50 +0200, Umberto Nicoletti escribió: > On 8/9/07, Marcos Sánchez Provencio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems to be related to the fact that the connection is opened only > > once. is it possible to force reopening database connections? I am going > > to try using clone(). > > Clone makes a deep copy of the object, so it is not useful in your > case. Try to put the string in quotes (no double quotes, just two > single quotes), ie: > > self.capa.filteritem=''escala'' > > Umberto > > > > > El jue, 09-08-2007 a las 11:21 +0200, Marcos Sánchez Provencio escribió: > > > Good morning (in Spain). This is my first post to the list. > > > > > > I have set up a django app that uses mapscript to serve maps (not using > > > http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/GeoDjango whatsoever). > > > > > > I have a shp file with several layers of detail (wind predictions, > > > aggregated in 1x, 4x, 16x, etc.). I wanted to use filteritem and filter > > > to show only the level of desired detail. > > > > > > If I put > > > FILTERITEM escala > > > FILTER "16" > > > in a mapfile, it works as expected. > > > > > > but > > > > > > self.capa.filteritem='escala' > > > self.capa.setFilter('16') > > > does not. > > > > > > Any hint why? > >