Hi Giuseppe, Here are some explanations and comments about this patch (this is a patch, not a plugin) - one other regular user (Hisaji) told me he was interested in porting this patch to OpenJUMP - this is a five years old development. I haven't used it for at least 4 years (and I'm quite sure nobody else but me has used it) - one of the goal was to be able to read mif/mid, geoconcept and dxf files and to write them back without loosing any information about data types - this is not a plugin but a patch because it modifies some core classes in jump - the patch is not safe as it is and it is quite hard to make it rock-solid because "AttributeType" is not easily extensible and it is used everywhere in the soft. - several years after, I'm still not sure about the usefulness and/or the best way to deal with attribute types : . I still think adding boolean would be great (just need to check everywhere in the code, internal plugins, readers, writers what has to be changed - it may be a problem for external plugins) . characters and decimals : not so useful, or in a way that would make OJ more compatible with SQL standard (I think kosmo did some work in this direction) . enumeration : there is two purposes. easing data edition, keeping consistent data. I think the first can be managed in a more dynamic way (combobox filled with last entered values for exemple), and the second is interesting but not very standard (I know only one gis using enumaration as attribute type) . other attribute types : it would be interesting to study attribute types in xml schema (and gml), and the notion of constraints which are not limited to a number of characters or decimals (ex. max value, regular expression) . final thought : I like the simplicity of OpenJUMP model. Adding new attribute types with full compatibility with all plugins is still a lot of work. It could be more interesting to introduce constraints to existing attribute types than adding new attribute types, but it's also a lot of work.
You did no mistake in the installation procedure. I added a security check in the updater to prevent user to update an uptodate soft with an older patch. If you can change the date of .class in the mm-patch.jar, it should work (don't know how to do that), otherwise, I'll have to re-compile the patch (not sure when I'll find time to do that). Michaël Giuseppe Aruta a écrit : > Hi all, > scouting between old Jump plugins I discover thia one > :http://michael.michaud.free.fr/jump/plugins/plugins.html "mm-patch" made by > Michael. > Between other improvements, mm-patch adds the possibility to use other > attribute types, like boolean, long, char, decimal and enumeration. I invite > to give a look to Michael's interesting documantation about this plugin here: > http://www.projet-sigle.org/trac/browser/projetsigle/openjump/plugins/mmpatch/mm-patch-doc.pdf?rev=87&format=raw, > for perople who read french :). > Unfortunatelly I was not able to let it work. > 1) following the installation note I put the two files (jumpupdater.jar and > mm-patchXXX.jar) into the OJ/lib folser, run jumpapdater.jar and then run > OpenJUMP to see if I was able to set new attribute type on Open schema - It > doesn't show the new attributes > 2) I used the same procedure for Jump 1.1.2 with no resaults. > 3) Following the exanmples on the PDF, I run the scripts by beanshell trying > to create the new attributes. I had this error message: > > ///////////////////////////// > // Error: EvalError: Typed variable declaration : Error in method > invocation: Static method createCharAttributeType( int ) not found in > class'com.vividsolutions.jump.feature.AttributeType' : at Line: 1 : in file: > <unknown file> : AttributeType .createCharAttributeType ( 16 ) > /////////////////////////// > > Shoould I do mistakes on the installation? > > I think this plugin would be better integrate into Openjump. The possibility > to use enumaration and boolean attribute would be of a good benefit for field > survayours or for people who have to input repetitive datas into a project. > > Regards > > Peppe > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are > powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and > easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development > software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. > Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
