Re: [udig-devel] udig life cd

[Andrea Antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

Let me add a number six:

6) The udig project file doesn't support relative paths? This would be
mandatory to have a project starting from cd.

Cheers,
Andrea






Andrea Antonello probaly wrote:
> Hi, this is something that was discussed a bit in the past in udig and
> geotools, but I couldn't find answers to my doubts.
> It deals with the need of small and simple configurable viewers based on
> geotools, while geotools doesn't support the gui part any longer (at
> least not regularly). I support the decision, since geotools is the
> library and the viewers should be made on top of udig...
> 
> ...BUT... udig is really a beast to tame :) and just knowing a bit of
> java is not enough, while it is/was with the geotools classes.
> 
> So here I go with some straight questions regarding the possibility to
> start udig in lightweight mode (just some necessary modules) with
> preloaded data from a cd:
> 
> 1) the udig executable has no command line arguments? For example to
> pass it a project to be loaded. I couldn't find any.
> 
> 2) when launching udig from a cd, which is obviously readonly, is the
> default workspace created in the home? I assume it is not possible to
> have a project launched from cd, since the workspace containes
> .metadata, which are read and written every time to remember the
> perspective's configuration and other nice stuff.
> 
> 3) the data instead should be no problem, even if readonly, just you
> will not be able to change the style, right?
> 
> 4) imagine to have to automagically load a whole pile of geotiffs and
> geojpgs. Obviously you can't preload them, instead you could have
> somewhere a list with the bounds and you could load only the visible
> ones in the window and also make the visualization scaledependent. Where
> could I best nest the regarding code for this?
> 
> 5) is it the product that one creates to keep the packaging infos, i.e.
> if I create a viewer with just sdk classes and no others, than will
> anyone be able to recreate that viewer just by having the product plugin?
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help that you will (hopefully) give me :)
> 
> Andrea
> 
> 
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