Re: [udig-devel] Help with simple plugin

[Andrea Antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pedro,
I agree with you :)
Udig is not for quick tasks. I feel UDig is a long term investment and
needs some preparing time, at least for me it has been like that. The
udig docs were mandatory, but not enough for me, because to understand
the big picture I think you have to also have a good base of the RCP
Platform (I had to read a book about it).
Adding operations and elaborations is pretty easy, but making core
contributions needs some more study time, in order to see great results
and have fun. At the point I am now, I already have big fun and know it
has been worth it. But at the begin... :)

About Feature, FeatureType and similar I remember seeing some UML
diagrams on the geotools site, since that is assumed to be their
responsability:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Features

Andrea




Pedro Da Ros probaly wrote:
> Hey Cory,
> 
> thanks a lot for your info, this tutorial helped me a lot :).
> 
> I´m still fighting but am starting to understand a bit. I dont know,
> but I´m finding uDig a little bit too complex. I just want to add a
> layer to the map, and I seem to have to implement a lot of classes to
> do that :( .
> 
> Does anyone know if are there some (UML?) diagrams to help me
> understanding the big picture? I couldnt find any (neither on the site
> nor searching on Google). Or maybe some docs on this inter-relation
> between the classes/interfaces like Map, Layer, Feature, FeatureType,
> etc.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> -Pedro Da Ros
> 
> 
> On 6/5/07, Cory Horner <chorner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Pedro Da Ros wrote:
>> > I took a look on the tutorials (I had seen only the one on the site,
>> > the "distancemeasure" one), and they helped me getting started on the
>> > plugin, as I managed to add a button to the toolbar and create a map
>> > and a layer when the user clicks the button :).
>> >
>> > But I've been struggling for over 2 hours trying to add features to
>> > the layer but I cant... tried to create a feature schema and set to
>> > the layer but couldnt... nor create individual features (managed to
>> > create a feature collection with empty feature type, but didnt manage
>> > to create the features itself to populate the collection). I could
>> > create "Point"s, but didnt manage to convert them to Features to add
>> > to the layer.
>> >
>> > I couldnt find the example that reads from an ASCII file and renders
>> > to a layer, that one should cover my problem, I think.
>>
>> Pedro,
>>
>> I've written a crude tutorial here:
>>
>> http://svn.geotools.org/udig/community/chorner/net.refractions.udig.tutorials.txtDataStore/
>>
>>
>> but haven't had time to clean it up or document it well.  It may help
>> you out though, as it does successfully read points in from an ascii
>> file (i believe the format was x,y one per line.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Cory.
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