Re: [udig-devel] udig life cd

[Andrea Antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jesse,
I created a project in the default location, which was udig-workspace.
Then I loaded some maps and closed udig. Then I reopened it and as
expected, it loaded everything pretty. The map was called map and saved
as map.umap.

After that I renamed udig-workspace to udigwspace and launched udig like:

udig -data /home/moovida/udigwspace -configuration
/home/moovida/udigwspace config map.umap

It didn't load anything like it was before. The perspective
configuration was remembered, but no map loaded.
I then tried to open the project with the open project in the File menu,
but that also didn't work.

Didn't I get it right?

Andrea






Jesse Eichar probaly wrote:
> Right you have to specify where the configuration area should be.  add
> the parameter -configuration %HOMEPATH%\uDigConfig
> 
> So something like:
> 
> udig -data %HOMEPATH%\uDigWorkspace\
> -configuration %HOMEPATH%\uDigWorkspace\ config testMap.umap
> 
> Jesse
> 
> On 13-Mar-07, at 9:46 AM, Andrea Antonello wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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