Re: [udig-devel] udig life cd

[Andrea Antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

And let me add another one :) (while I'm playing with it)

7) I burned udig on a cd to see what happens when launched from there
(and on a windows box) and the answer is... nothing. Well almost
nothing. The splashscreen starts, a folder
.eclipse/net.refractions.udig_product...etc.etc. is created with the
configuration in it and then... everything dies. No error, nothing at
all. I tried to launch it from commandline and the same happened. (this
makes me also think of the possibility to have a debug mode, which has
some logging system (log4j?))

Ciao
Andrea




Andrea Antonello probaly wrote:
> 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
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> 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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