[Chameleon] maptips widget

[Paul Spencer]

Sander,

Sander Dee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying the Maptips-widget and I have two questions about it. I'm
> using chameleon 1.99.
> 
> 1. How can I turn the widget off after using it? When I select no layers
> ("turn off Map Tips") and click Ok, it says "No attributes selected. Click
> Close instead!". When the widget is active I can't use some other widgets
> like zooming in on the map.

this sounds like a bug.  Please file it in bugzilla ... unfortunately I 
don't think it will get addressed for the 1.99 version but I will try to 
adress it at some point.

> 
> 2. I can't get this widget to work with WMS-layers, maybe I'm doing
> something wrong?

This widget cannot work directly with WMS layers because WMS layers are 
treated as raster layers (i.e. there is no feature information, just a 
picture).  I cannot recall offhand, but it is possible that the widget 
may work with WMS layers that have an associated WFS ... if this works 
at all, ir would require a suitably configured WMS/WFS server with a 
version of MapServer that advertises the connection in response to a WMS 
DescribeLayer request.  Also, the code is relatively inefficient for 
lines since they have to be buffered in PHP code, whereas points and 
polygons are much more efficient.

Cheers,

Paul

> 
> My layer looks like this:
> 
>    LAYER
>        NAME "Gemeentes04"
>        CONNECTION
> "http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms4w_20/apps/edugis/map/edu_gem.map&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.0&LAYERS=Gemeentes04&QUERY_LAYERS=Gemeentes04&FORMAT=image/png&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&" 
> 
>        CONNECTIONTYPE WMS
>          METADATA
>            "wms_srs"    "EPSG:28992"
>            "wms_onlineresource"    
> "http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms4w_20/apps/edugis/map/edu_gem.map&" 
> 
>            "wfs_onlineresource"    
> "http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms4w_20/apps/edugis/map/edu_gem.map&" 
> 
>            "wms_stylelist"    ""
>            "wms_name"    "Gemeentes04"
>            "wfs_name"    "Gemeentes04"
>            "wms_title"    "Topografie"
>            "wms_style_default_title"    ""
>            "wms_style_default_legendurl"    "0 0  "
>            "wms_server_version"    "1.1.0"
>            "wms_formatlist"    "image/jpeg,image/png"
>            "wms_format"    "image/png"
>            "wms_boundingbox"    "EPSG:28992 0 300000 325000 625000"
>            "wms_style"    ""
>          END
>        PROJECTION
>          "init=epsg:28992"
>        END
>        SIZEUNITS PIXELS
>        STATUS ON
>        DUMP TRUE
>        TEMPLATE "blank.html"
>        TOLERANCE 0
>        TOLERANCEUNITS PIXELS
>        TYPE RASTER
>        UNITS METERS
>    END
> 
> Best regards,
> Sander
> 
> 
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