And let me add another one :) (while I'm playing with it) 7) I burned udig on a cd to see what happens when launched from there (and on a windows box) and the answer is... nothing. Well almost nothing. The splashscreen starts, a folder .eclipse/net.refractions.udig_product...etc.etc. is created with the configuration in it and then... everything dies. No error, nothing at all. I tried to launch it from commandline and the same happened. (this makes me also think of the possibility to have a debug mode, which has some logging system (log4j?))
Ciao Andrea Andrea Antonello probaly wrote: > Let me add a number six: > > 6) The udig project file doesn't support relative paths? This would be > mandatory to have a project starting from cd. > > Cheers, > Andrea > > > > > > > Andrea Antonello probaly wrote: >> 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 >> > -- ____________________________________________________________________________ HydroloGIS - Environmental Safety Modelling www.hydrologis.com Andrea Antonello Environmental Engineer mobile: +393288497722 "Let it be as much a great honour to take as to give learning, if you want to be called wise." Skuggsja' - The King's mirror - 1240 Reykjavik ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
