[Chameleon] MapNotes Map Update Problem

[matt.palavido at cleargis.com]

Bill,

Thanks for the information. I did as you suggested and took a look at the
files in tmp folder. I couldn't see anything out of the ordinary but I
could be missing something. The only two things I noticed were for the map
notes layer it had a template "ttt" line and the data path was missing the
"c:". I tried the same test using the enhanced smaples widget with
identical results in the temporary map file but the image gets generated
without any problem. Here is the MapNotesAnnotation syntaxt that was
generated if that helps at all:

  LAYER
    CLASSITEM "id"
    DATA "/ms4w/tmp/sess_42f3b83af1150/b5f102a963b25cdc85e100d99e320801"
    LABELITEM "label"
      METADATA
        "layer_index"	"6"
        "LEGEND_ORDER"	"6"
      END
    NAME "MapNotesAnnotation"
    SIZEUNITS PIXELS
    STATUS ON
    TEMPLATE "ttt"
    TOLERANCE 5
    TOLERANCEUNITS PIXELS
    TYPE POINT
    UNITS METERS
    CLASS
      EXPRESSION ([id] = 1)
      LABEL
        ANGLE 0.000000
        ANTIALIAS TRUE
        FONT sans
        MAXSIZE 256
        MINSIZE 4
        SIZE 10
        TYPE TRUETYPE
        BACKGROUNDCOLOR 255 255 204
        BACKGROUNDSHADOWCOLOR 0 0 0
        BUFFER 3
        COLOR 0 0 0
        FORCE TRUE
        MINDISTANCE 100
        MINFEATURESIZE -1
        OFFSET 6 0
        OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
        PARTIALS TRUE
        POSITION CR
      END
      METADATA
      END
      STYLE
          COLOR 0 0 0
        MAXSIZE 500
        MINSIZE 1
          OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
        SIZE 8
        SYMBOL "circle"
      END
    END
  END

Also, I opened up the shapefile using some GIS software and it looked as
though it was fine. I'm positive this is something really simple I'm just
not seeing...its like staring at one of those 3d posters where the image
is uspposed to appear:) Thanks again!

Matt

> Hi Matt,
>
> The easiest way to try and debug this is to check the temporary mapfile
> that
> has been generated by chameleon.
>
> Are you familiar with the temp session files that get created with
> chameleon?  Run the application to the point at which it breaks and then
> look in you chameleon temp directory (check your config/chameleon.xml file
> to see where the temp directory is) and find the last temp session
> directory
> that has been created.  The directory will be named sess_xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> where
> the 'x' represent a unique session identifier (ie. sess_42dfb73fc846b).
> In
> there you will find a temp mapfile.  Open the mapfile and look for the
> MapNotesAnnotation layer.  Check to see if its definition contains any
> anomalies.
>
> Also you will find that a temporary shape file has been generated in the
> same temp directory and should be referenced by the MapNotesAnnotation
> layer.  Check the shape file to see if it is valid.
>
> Between the map and shape files, you should be able to track down the
> problem.
>
> Let me know how it goes.
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________
>
> William A. Bronsema, C.E.T.
> Software & Applications Development,
> DM Solutions Group Inc.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org [mailto:chameleon-
>> bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of matt.palavido at cleargis.com
>> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 10:49 AM
>> To: chameleon at lists.maptools.org
>> Subject: [Chameleon] MapNotes Map Update Problem
>>
>> Hi listers,
>>
>> I'm sure I've got something miscoded or misconfigured (I'm pretty good
>> at
>> that!), but I can't for the life of me get the MapNotes widget working
>> for
>> me on my chameleon app. I have added it with the following parameters
>> (taken from "sample_enhanced.html"):
>>
>> <!-- MAP NOTES -->
>>           <td><cwc2 type="MapNotes"
>> 	       visible="true"
>>                imagetip="MapNotes"
>>                image="icons/icon_add_mapnote.png"
>>                toolset="Navigation"
>>                styleresource="NavButtons">
>>     	      <image state="normal"/>
>>               <image state="hover"/>
>>               <image state="selected"/>
>>          </cwc2></td>
>>
>> The tool shows up in my app, you can click it and the MapNotes dialogue
>> come sup just fine. Once you type in your note and click "Add", it
>> indeed
>> adds the new "MapNotesAnnotation" layer to the legend, but then a small
>> red X (missing image indicator) shows up where the map should be and the
>> "Loading Image...Please Wait" gif just sits there and spins and spins
>> and
>> spins.
>>
>> Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help and thanks for your patience
>> with us Rookies!
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
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