Ah, great, thanx Stefan. I'll add the requests there so others can comment/poke holes/massage/scrap the ideas.
Yeah, OJ is by far my preferred desktop GIS client. The fact that OJ is so tightly coupled with JTS (which is the backbone of PostGIS through GEOS) makes it great to work with. Cheers, Kevin On 9/1/2010 11:48 AM, Stefan Steiniger wrote: > Hei Kevin, > > thanks for you thoughts. Sounds all pretty reasonable to me - the only > issue is "developer time" ;) > > In general we have at SourceForge the Bug Tracker and Feature-Request > Tracker. So that would be the place to add your 3 wishes: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/jump-pilot/support > > > We actually had also a TODO.txt file in the trunk, but it is not used. > > thanks again, and its actually nice to know that Refractions-Folks > besides Martin is still interested in OJ development :) > > cheers from Calgary to Victoria > stefan > > Kevin Neufeld wrote: >> Stefan mentioned that there isn't a road map for OJ, but is there a >> place to jot down improvement ideas? >> >> Here are a couple on my wishlist: >> >> 1) The ability to specify which columns are editable in an layer's >> attribute table. Right now, the FID and geometry column are hard-coded >> as being the only columns that are not editable. I would like to see >> this driven off the layer's FeatureSchema. Perhaps there could be a >> "isAttributeReadOnly(int attributeIndex)" method added to the >> FeatureSchema that could be used in LayerTableModel.isCellEditable(int >> rowIndex, int columnIndex). >> >> Primary key attributes that belong to a DynamicFeatureCollection driven >> off a database is one example of a non-editable column. >> >> >> 2) The ability to customize the tooltips for previously installed >> plugins on a layer's right click context menu. For example, I could >> have a custom implementation of a Layer that is backed by a custom >> FeatureCollection. If I mark the layer as readonly, the "Editable" menu >> item is correctly greyed-out. The tooltip says something like "This >> layer cannot be made editable." The menu item is greyed-out ... >> obviously it's not editable. I would like to change the tooltip to >> explain *why* the menu item is greyed-out ... which is particular to my >> custom FeatureCollection. >> >> IE. >> "No Primary Key found on the underlying database table" >> "Adhoc queries cannot be made editable" >> "SQL Server DataStores cannot currently be made editable" >> >> >> 3) A new UpdatablePlugIn interface with methods like getPluginVersion(), >> getPluginURL(). All implementations of the interface could be listed in >> the extensions tag in the About window. A user could choose to update a >> selected plugin where a new plugin jar and all the jar's dependencies >> would automatically download, available upon application restart. I >> know, I know. This would require a huge framework and lots of developer >> time, but it sure would be nice to have. >> >> >> Cheers, >> -- Kevin >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: >> >> Show off your parallel programming skills. >> Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd >> _______________________________________________ >> Jump-pilot-devel mailing list >> Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
