[mapserver-users] 24 bit PNG transparent symbols

2008-07-25 Thread Ben Brehmer
Hi List, I've been trying to get 24 bit PNG symbols to be transparent. I've tried both GD and AGG output. I've tried --with-experimental-png. I've tried editing the symbol in photoshop to be transparent. Basically fooled around with all the different output format options. I've tried both RGB

Re: [mapserver-users] CGI controls - Symbol

2008-07-14 Thread Ben Brehmer
ng out my hair. Note that I am also using the DATA CGI var to supply dynamic data content in the same URL (not sure if this would make a difference). Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ben Brehmer The mapfile is pretty straight forward: . .. ... DATAPATTERN

[mapserver-users] CGI controls - Symbol

2008-07-11 Thread Ben Brehmer
tent in the same URL (not sure if this would make a difference). Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ben Brehmer The mapfile is pretty straight forward: . .. ... DATAPATTERN ".*" LAYER NAME "pointlayer" DATA "" CONNECTIONTYPE postg

Re: [mapserver-users] How to query attributes via WMS

2008-07-07 Thread Ben Brehmer
Hi Steve, There's some documentation [1] for using Run-time substitutions. You will need to add a regular expression for 'DATAPATTERN' in your mapfile (DATAPATTERN '.*' will allow all substitutions). You will need to modify your WMS call to include something as follows "..&map.layer[layer

[mapserver-users] Mapserver 5 migration & PostGIS

2008-07-04 Thread Ben Brehmer
s is not in the DATA statement. It deosn't seem to matter how I manipulate the DATA statement, it always has an empty string prepended to it at runtime which causes this error. Any ideas why an empty string is prepended to a PostGIS query at runtime in Mapserver 5? Thanks, Ben Brehme

Re: [mapserver-users] transparent symbol clobbering

2008-06-26 Thread Ben Brehmer
intended behavior. Perhaps I'll start digging through the code. Cheers, Ben [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org/msg00569.html Paul Spencer wrote: just a guess, try transparency alpha Cheers Paul On 25-Jun-08, at 7:33 PM, Ben Brehmer wrote: I have a very si

[mapserver-users] transparent symbol clobbering

2008-06-25 Thread Ben Brehmer
without the background color coming through. Any thoughts as to what could be causing this? Cheers, Ben Brehmer The relevant parts of my very simple map file: MAP TRANSPARENT ON OUTPUTFORMAT NAME PNG24 DRIVER "G