Hi Lars,

Thank you for the feedback on this. Let me clarify what I'm trying to do. I have a shape file with contour lines in it. I drawing this as an overlay image so the background is transparent. In the mapfile the IMAGECOLOR sets the background color and this is the color that is identified as transparent. So in a PNG image the background color is set in the first slot of the color table and marked as transparent. In my case this is color #ffffff, but if I create labelpoly and assign it as #ffffff then another slot in the color table is allocated and assigned the color #ffffff but not the first slot that was allocated for the background, so it shows up as white.

In my image I have a contour line drawn and when it is labeled the contour line goes through the text of the label. If I use the labelpoly then a white background for the label is shown hiding the contour line. This is what I want to happen only I want the labelpoly color to be the same color slot as the background color to it hides the contour line behind the label like the white case but is transparent instead of white. IE: it needs to write the label poly with the first slot color, not the new white color slot.

I think, setting the COLOR -1 -1 -1 was intended to do this, but maybe not.

Attached are two small images:

contour.png - shows the contour line through the label text with labelpoly color #FFFFFF00 or color -1 -1 -1
contour-white.png - show labelpoly color #FFFFFF

-Steve W

On 3/11/2019 5:25 AM, lars.schylb...@blixtmail.se wrote:
Hi Steve,

I am not sure what your use of IMAGECOLOR has to do here.  Normally I have some 
layers in between the
background and the elevation lines.

But there are two more ways do get the color to be transparent in Mapserver:

STYLE
   GEOMTRANSFORM 'labelpoly'
   COLOR "#ffffff00"
END

or

STYLE
   GEOMTRANSFORM 'labelpoly'
   COLOR 255 255 255
   OPACITY 0
END


But those are doing the same thing as your solution below with COLOR -1 -1 -1

Maybe You are after some of the potential techniques that Thomas talked about a 
couple of years ago with
layer blending with the label cache. Those were some future techniques that 
could be added to the
layer composite pipeline if anyone was interested.

Best regards

Lars Schylberg



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