On 26.07.2010 08:58, Rahkonen Jukka wrote: > Hi, > > I made a very quick test and here are first results: > > - Installation was successful by following the instructions. It means, unzip. > Easy. > - Virtual serial port must exist before launching OpenJUMP. If OJ is running > and virtual serial port is created later the plugin will not find it.
I put that on my todo list, in case there is a second round for extension enhancement. > - Adding points successful. You can add point to any editable OpenJUMP layer. > Just select the layer and add a point. Simple. Unfortunately not necessarily where the crosshair is ;) .. that is always in the viewports centre (hence only the position if tracking is enabled). This is also on the todo list. > - EX Buttons is a good pair with GPS plugin because it gives a button and > shortcut key for adding points. EZ Buttons cannot show the status of GPS > plugin, though. Pressing a button does not do anything if GPS tracking in > not active, naturally. Only heard of EZ Buttons until now. Are they a default plugin? The status is always on the bottom left corner of the status bar. How else would you like it? > - I can't guess what "Set task to track" should do. Now I am not sure if it > is doing anything. projects are called tasks internally. If you have open two projects you can select which one viewport is tracked. Should be translated better, right. > - "Insert point from GPS" is a bit odd tool. User must have a line or polygon > selected and then the plugin inserts more points somewhere in between the > geometry. I would have more use for Start digitising a line/polygon tool > without a need to have something ready on a map. May this should be call append point, as it appends a point to an selected existing geometry. This way you can not only capture but "digitize" on the fly. (Add Point -> Convert geometry (eg. linestring for a street) -> Append Point) > Now I think I would measure an area by adding just points from GPS and > digitising a polygon manually with snapping on later. > > -Jukka Rahkonen- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l? http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
