Hi! I am not sure which of the suggested routes to take.
Maybe I should explain a little more about these icons. They are going to be used for land management for a research project in Guyana. So they will be images of fish, birds, huts, that sort of thing. Users will want to drag a bird say, onto an area of the map where there are a lot of these birds. They will need to be able to double-click the bird icon and open a discussion map in the Compendium application - www.compendiuminstitute.org (the software I actually develop), where that bird population can then be discussed or whatever. The Compendium map will need to link back to that bird icon on that map (somehow!!?) so users can move between the two applications easily. This is much more complicated then my original brief. And goes into areas I know nothing about. I will need to understand much more about shape files and data storage so that I can store the icon data position, associated Compendium map details etc. I have no idea how to do any of this at the moment. I am just starting to get my head into coding in Eclipse and for uDig. So far I have managed to write a plugin to manage collections of icons as groups, with the icons stored locally and the data stored in XML files (easy really just using the Eclipse API). I am just looking at writing the view to display these icon groups which the user can drag from. The rest of the Eclipse and uDig API is a complete mistery and I get lost very easily. I started looking at MapGraphic in the API and straight away could not work out how to get a MapGraphicContext. As usual in life, there is just me, with lost of projects and no time. If someone could spoon-feed me a little with the image drop/shapefile data storage issues to help me get into uDIG API quickly I would really appreciate the help at this point. Thanks Michelle -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jesse Eichar Sent: 10 February 2006 17:36 To: User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS Subject: Re: [udig-devel] Difficulty with raster images using World Image Files That's a possibility too. But only if the attribute exists in the feature. If it is only for viewing then maybe not. Oh. I should mention that map graphics don't automatically save. However things in the Map.getBlackboard() do save. Any object on the blackboard that has a "persister" extension can be saved and loaded. See the net.refractions.udig.project.persister extension point for more information on that. Jesse Jody Garnett wrote: > M.S.Bachler wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I need to create a panel of icons that can be dragged and dropped >> onto a map layer. >> > That sounds a like a "FeatureEditor" to me. Make a tool that adds > points to the map, and based on an attribute displays the correct > icons. Then make a custom feature editor that will let the user change > the icon nicely. Finally make a view that has your icons on it, and > based on the currently selected one it will create a feature of the > appropriate type. > > The actual data could be a shapefile, or a database or anything. > > Jody > > _______________________________________________ > 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
