Changes between Initial Version and Version 4 of Ticket #762

Timestamp:

Mar 10, 2008, 2:02:58 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

dmorissette

Comment:

A question about the missing removeLayer() came up on the -users list today. Here is an exceprt from my reply explaining why we never addressed this ticket:

"... then I started to wonder why we never implemented removeLayer(), and it came back to me that removeLayer() returns a standalone layerObj that's decoupled from the mapObj and can even be reinserted into the map at another location later on with insertLayer(). Without looking into this in any detail, it sounds like adding this may be more involved than just adding a new method since PHP MapScript doesn't allow decoupling objects like this at the moment. That and the fact that there are simpler alternatives to do the same thing (i.e. setting status MS_DELETE) probably explains why we never did it."