Eh? Super fast Justin... Thanks very much 
Miles
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Deoliveira [mailto:jdeolive@anonymised.com]
> Well... ask and thou shalt receive!! :). I have implemented
> this feature on 1.5.x and trunk. It was easy due to Saul's
> recent LegendOptions work. So here is the deal:
>
> To specify background color you use the LEGEND_OPTIONS
> parameter like so:
>
> LEGEND_OPTIONS=bgColor:000000
>
> I also added an option to change the label color as well:
>
> LEGEND_OPTIONS=bgColor:000000;fontColor:ffffff
>
> Enjoy. I just generated another nightly build so you can
> grab the latest and try it out.
>
> http://geo.openplans.org/nightly/1.5.x/geoserver-1.5.x-latest-bin.zip
>
> -Justin
>
> Miles Jordan wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Justin Deoliveira
> > > Is your intent to have the background of the legend image
> > > itself to be a different color.
> >
> > Yes, that was the functionality I was investigating
> >
> > > I would have to check the
> > > spec to be sure but I don't think the bgcolor will really
> > > apply to the resulting legend graphic since it is meant to
> > > portray the styles of features in a getMap request and not
> > > the background of the resulting image.
> > >
> > > That being said, I can see how this could be a useful option
> > > to have. Especially if one of the rules of and SLD specifies
> > > a "white" polygon or something. It would be pretty straight
> > > forward to add as an additional parameter to the
> > > GetLegendGraphic operation (something outside the spec but
> > > something that geoserver supports).
> > >
> >
> > Yeah, I had a feeling it would be a pretty simple geoserver-only
> > feature to add in, and I would have had a go myself if it
> weren't for
> > the fact that I couldn't get the source to build last time I
> > downloaded it. It would be handy, though -
> getLegendGraphic is really
> > useful - I use it for more than just showing legends on maps, eg.
> > Showing how an SLD might style something. The reason I
> brought it up
> > was because I was looking at the getLegendGraphic of an
> SLD that had 2
> > styles in it, but I could barely see half of it because it
> was almost
> > white - pretty much the same scenario that you described.
> >
> > Version 1.6 is looking good, btw
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Miles
> >
>
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