Hi! Thanks for the reply about D&D. I have been side-tracked for a few weeks on something else, but am now coming back to look at this properly.
Some of the questions I am about to ask will probably be stupid, but here goes. I have a steep learning curve ahead. I need to get my head into uDig, Geoserver and how it all works very quickly and would be grateful for a boost. Ultimately, I need to set up a database in MySQL, communicated to through Geoserver and used by uDig to store GIS information some of which will be dragged in from another application in the form of text strings and image files. I have installed Geoserver successfully, and have been trying to understand what format a database schema would take. Is there a standard schema required for geoserver to understand the data, or does it just pass it about and it is uDig that needs the data in a certain format? Or is it converted somewhere along the way? Is that where GML comes into play? It's quite late at night here in England, so I hope I am making sense! I am trying to understand how to start approaching the D&D stuff I need to do. If I drop a string or image file onto a Map, I assume it would need to create a new layer in the layer manager (and assuming I have programmed where), ultimately store the data in the database and then render the feature. So I need to deal with Map, LayerManager, RenderManager, Catalogue, Feature and probably more? Ahhh! I feel sleepless nights coming on. I really work best from examples. Working directly with code and experimenting by tweeking until I understand. I tried to find example code to play with. I wrote a small plugin to add a menu item, just to try and learn more about Eclipse. But there did not seem to be much example code relevant to what I am trying to do, or else I understand so little at the moment that I did not recognise which examples would be useful to me. Could anyone suggest any examples I should look at? I know this email has lots of questions about different areas. If anyone has the time to answer any of it that would be great. I really need a leg up with all this, or I may get paralyzed by fear at the seeming magnitude of it all. Thanks Michelle -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jesse Eichar Sent: 12 October 2005 17:54 To: User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS Subject: Re: [udig-devel] Drag and Drop The drag and drop development documentation is being developed at: http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/DEV/Drag+and+Drop Jesse Jesse Eichar wrote: > Hi we have a drag and drop framework in udig. I will set up a page > that documents Drag and Drop. If you will bear with me for 1/2 hour > or so :). I'll email the list the link to the list as soon as it is up. > > Jesse > > M.S.Bachler wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I am totally new to uDig and Eclipse, but am a Java developer. >> >> I need to write code to handle drag and drop events to and from uDIG >> and another Java application. >> >> I have installed everything, and attempted to read the documentation >> and look at the API. >> >> I am a little lost. >> >> I am not sure how I figure out what to extend. >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> >> Michelle >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net >> http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > http://udig.refractions.net > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
