On 6/19/2012 2:15 AM, Matt McClelland wrote:
Hi All
Is is possible create and use variables within a mapfile?
IE I want to store the colour of a road in one place, then reference
that colour in the several style tags
EG
$road_colour_inside = "255 0 0 "
then later in the style tags be able to do
color $road_colour_inside
Or something similar.
I am using v6.0
Short answer is no.
What I and others have done as a workaround to this is to use the cpp,
the C preprocessor.
EG
#define _ROAD_COLOR_INSIDE "255 0 0"
COLOR _ROAD_COLOR_INSIDE
Then run the cpp, If you want to see a great example of this look at:
https://github.com/mapserver/basemaps
-Steve W
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