[Chameleon] Bug when publising truetype symbol

[Paul Spencer]

as a work-around, you should be able to move the symbol into a symbol 
file.  My first suspicions would be:

1) invalid symbol definition
2) mapserver bug reading this symbol
3) mapserver bug saving inline symbol and opening the saved mapfile

if it is none of these things, then it may be some Chameleon bug (but it 
looks more like a mapserver issue at this point)

You should test this outside of Chameleon, perhaps email on the 
mapserver-users list would be the best option.

Cheers

Paul

Pierre Racine wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Publishing this map file with Chameleon:
> __________________________________________
> MAP
>    EXTENT -100 -100 100 100 #Coor latlong world
>    SIZE 500 500
>    FONTSET "D:\ms4w\fonts\fonts.txt"
>    UNITS dd
> 
> 
> SYMBOL
>  NAME "natcap"
>  FONT arial
>  TYPE TRUETYPE
>  FILLED true
>  ANTIALIAS true
>  CHARACTER "x"
> END
> 
>    PROJECTION
>        "init=epsg:4269"
>    END
> 
>    LAYER
>        NAME smallpointslayer
>        STATUS DEFAULT
>        TYPE point
> 
>        PROJECTION
>            "init=epsg:4269"
>        END
> 
>        FEATURE
>            POINTS 1 1 END
>        END
> 
>        CLASS
>            MINSIZE 1
>            STYLE
>                SYMBOL "natcap"
>                #SYMBOL "circle"
>                SIZE 12
>                COLOR 0 0 0
>                OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>            END
>        END
>    END
> 
> END
> ______________________________________________
> 
> The URL is:
> 
> http://127.0.0.1/chameleon/samples/sample_basic_plainbuttons.phtml
> 
> I get the following result:
> ________________________________________________________
> Warning: [MapServer Error]: getSymbol(): Parsing error near (8):(line 
> 27) in 
> D:\ms4w\apps\chameleon\htdocs\widgets\MapDHTML\MapDHTML.widget.php on 
> line 176
> 
> Warning: Failed to open map file 
> d:/ms4w/tmp/sess_430df0d764d6f//mapDHTML_adjust.map in 
> D:\ms4w\apps\chameleon\htdocs\widgets\MapDHTML\MapDHTML.widget.php on 
> line 176
> 
> Fatal error: [MapServer Error]: setExtent(): Given map extent is 
> invalid. in 
> D:\ms4w\apps\chameleon\htdocs\widgets\MapDHTML\MapDHTML.widget.php on 
> line 178
> __________________________________________________________
> 
> The temporary map file generated contains the "POSITION 8" directive in 
> the symbol definition which I guess is wrong. Here is the temporary map:
> 
> MAP
>  EXTENT -100 -100 100 100
>  FONTSET "D:\ms4w\fonts\fonts.txt"
>  IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>  IMAGETYPE gif
>  SIZE 400 300
>  STATUS ON
>  UNITS DD
>  NAME "MS"
> 
>  OUTPUTFORMAT
>    NAME gif
>    MIMETYPE image/gif
>    DRIVER GD/GIF
>    EXTENSION gif
>    IMAGEMODE PC256
>    TRANSPARENT FALSE
>  END
> 
>  SYMBOL
>    NAME "natcap"
>    TYPE TRUETYPE
>    ANTIALIAS TRUE
>    CHARACTER x
>    GAP 0
>    FONT arial
>    POSITION 8
>  END
> 
>  PROJECTION
>    "init=epsg:4269"
>  END
>  LEGEND
>      IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>    KEYSIZE 20 10
>    KEYSPACING 5 5
>    LABEL
>      SIZE MEDIUM
>      TYPE BITMAP
>      BUFFER 0
>      COLOR 0 0 0
>      FORCE FALSE
>      MINDISTANCE -1
>      MINFEATURESIZE -1
>      OFFSET 0 0
>      PARTIALS TRUE
>      POSITION CC
>    END
>    POSITION LL
>    STATUS OFF
>  END
> 
>  QUERYMAP
>      COLOR 255 255 0
>    SIZE -1 -1
>    STATUS OFF
>    STYLE HILITE
>  END
> 
>  REFERENCE
>    COLOR -1 -1 -1
>    EXTENT -2.59456e+006 -712631 3.46736e+006 3.84e+006
>    IMAGE "D:\ms4w\apps\chameleon\samples\htdocs/images/keymap.png"
>    OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
>    SIZE 100 75
>    STATUS OFF
>      MARKER 0
>      MARKERSIZE 0
>      MINBOXSIZE 3
>      MAXBOXSIZE 0
>  END
> 
>  SCALEBAR
>      COLOR 0 0 0
>    IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>    INTERVALS 4
>    LABEL
>      SIZE MEDIUM
>      TYPE BITMAP
>      BUFFER 0
>      COLOR 0 0 0
>      FORCE FALSE
>      MINDISTANCE -1
>      MINFEATURESIZE -1
>      OFFSET 0 0
>      PARTIALS TRUE
>    END
>    POSITION LL
>    SIZE 200 3
>    STATUS OFF
>    STYLE 0
>    UNITS MILES
>  END
> 
>  WEB
>    IMAGEPATH "d:/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/"
>    IMAGEURL "/ms_tmp/"
>      METADATA
>      END
>    QUERYFORMAT text/html
>  END
> 
>  LAYER
>      METADATA
>      END
>    NAME "smallpointslayer"
>    PROJECTION
>      "init=epsg:4269"
>    END
>    SIZEUNITS PIXELS
>    STATUS DEFAULT
>    TOLERANCE 0
>    TOLERANCEUNITS PIXELS
>    TYPE POINT
>    UNITS METERS
>    CLASS
>      METADATA
>      END
>      STYLE
>          COLOR 0 0 0
>        MAXSIZE 500
>        MINSIZE 1
>          OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>        SIZE 12
>        SYMBOL "natcap"
>      END
>    END
>    FEATURE
>      POINTS
>        1 1
>      END
>    END
>  END
> 
> END
> 
> Pierre Racine
> 
> 
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