Hi, this is something that was discussed a bit in the past in udig and geotools, but I couldn't find answers to my doubts. It deals with the need of small and simple configurable viewers based on geotools, while geotools doesn't support the gui part any longer (at least not regularly). I support the decision, since geotools is the library and the viewers should be made on top of udig...
...BUT... udig is really a beast to tame :) and just knowing a bit of java is not enough, while it is/was with the geotools classes. So here I go with some straight questions regarding the possibility to start udig in lightweight mode (just some necessary modules) with preloaded data from a cd: 1) the udig executable has no command line arguments? For example to pass it a project to be loaded. I couldn't find any. 2) when launching udig from a cd, which is obviously readonly, is the default workspace created in the home? I assume it is not possible to have a project launched from cd, since the workspace containes .metadata, which are read and written every time to remember the perspective's configuration and other nice stuff. 3) the data instead should be no problem, even if readonly, just you will not be able to change the style, right? 4) imagine to have to automagically load a whole pile of geotiffs and geojpgs. Obviously you can't preload them, instead you could have somewhere a list with the bounds and you could load only the visible ones in the window and also make the visualization scaledependent. Where could I best nest the regarding code for this? 5) is it the product that one creates to keep the packaging infos, i.e. if I create a viewer with just sdk classes and no others, than will anyone be able to recreate that viewer just by having the product plugin? Thanks for any help that you will (hopefully) give me :) Andrea _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
