Re: [udig-devel] walkthrough bugs

[Craig Taverner <udig@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jody,

I am running from the SDK inside eclipse 3.4.1. I did
not know when your build would be ready and planned to get it first
thing tomorrow morning (it's late Friday evening still here, after 2am
so I'm going straight to bed now :-)

I'll add the issues to JIRA tomorrow when I get a chance. I was
aware of Andreas great code sprint in January, which is why I hesitated
before adding the issues to JIRA.

By the way, I'm assuming I
will run from within eclipse even with your new build? As discussed on
IRC before... or did you not build an SDK?

Cheers, Craig

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Crag:

Just to be clear uDig 1.2 M2 is the first release of the uDig 1.2
stream that was able to even attempt walkthrough 1 (a fact largly due
to Andrea organizing a code sprint in January :-D ).

I would really like you to report the issues in Jira; and please make
a note of the platform (I was working on URL handling and thus had
some platform specific issues with loading and saving projects and
restarting udig etc...). I have a plan to fix these issues; but am
waiting for a period of calm.

Can I ask if you are running from inside your eclipse; or if you are
running the release I made last night?

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Craig Taverner <udig@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I experienced a number of bugs with uDIG 1.2 M2 going through walkthrough 1,
> and wondered if I should report them to JIRA. The other guys working on
> windows seemed to have less trouble, so this could be very specific to my
> environment, Ubuntu 7.10. Also the bugs are the kind of thing anyone doing
> the walkthrough would experience, so I suspect they are not often
> experienced by others. I'll list them here, and will only add them to JIRA
> if you think it is appropriate:
>
> Main menu bar is missing most items. I have File, Edit, Natigation, Add
> Element, Window, Help. I the screenshots I see File, Edit, Navigation,
> Layer, Map, Data, Window, Help.

Something seems odd there; the "Add.Element" is from one of the code
examples and would only show up if you included the code.examples in
what you were running from eclipse.

So I loose three (Layer, Map, Data) and gain
> one (Add Element). Luckily all cases where the walkthrough expected these
> menu items, there were alternatives in the toolbar or context menus for the
> same actions.

> Add PostGIS Data works but requires serious tricks. Firstly when I get to
> the form that asks for the database name, typing in that field writes
> backwards

!elbirret si taht ?tahw

> Each keystroke appears to be followed by an automatic cursor left
> movement, so typing 'demo-bc' results in 'cb-omed'. If I type it backwards I
> almost get it right, but for some reason have to type 'c-bomed' because the
> '-' moves itself again. Super weird. Then if I press next or finish like in
> the instructions, nothing happens, just a flicker of the button. I found I
> had to press 'list' first and then next or finish would work fine.
>
> Reprojection is missing the requested NAD83 projection. Search for 42304
> yields nothing and a search for NDA83 gives a long list with nothing that
> looks like the required NAD83 / NRC projection. The only NAD83 projection
> with the word 'Canada' in it was 'NAD83 / Statistics Canada Lambert'. The
> WKT for this differed in many places from the expected CRS, but both were
> lambert, so I used this in the walkthrough.
>
> Update Sites list is empty, but the walkthrough expects three, JGrass, uDIG 1.1 updates and UWB updates.

Ye splease report these; but lets check what you are running first. I
almost expect that:
- you are running from inside eclipse?; or
- udig is tripping up over a previous installation

The typing backwards sounds like some code is resetting the list
contents of the combo box; as you are typing and confusing matters.
Jody
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