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[Jody Garnett]

Philip wrote:
> I am an old C programmer who has been tasked to rearchitect 20 yr old 
> code onto a new Linux box.  I am currently surveying open source 
> geotactical products.  I see three primary requirements:
>  
>   1- rendering of map products with typical map controls (pan, zoom, etc.)
>   2- polygon overlay construction through both a user interface and 
> also via code which is triggered upon receipt of an overlay data from 
> a network or serial feed.
>   3- automatic symbolization of track data
>  
> It appears that uDig satisfies these.  Do you see a weakness with 
> respect to these requirements?
The serial feed may be a bit of fun, since a client system is not always 
on do you intended to store up notifications into a database somewhere? 
It would be a great example us of the "issues list" interfaces we have 
been working on in the last couple weeks.
> Does uDig have foreign language support (interested in Hangul and 
> Japanese)?  Is there something in Java that would allow me to define 
> text strings from a resource file (like Motif)?
Paul Ramsey had a use-case from China as part of his presentation 
yesterday - these presentations will be placed online from the FOSS4G 
conference. We just need to look up the link. 
> Does uDig have a command line interface?  Can I construct script files 
> that zoom, create graphics, etc without navigating a GUI?  This is 
> especially useful as a menu executive where I can grey out panes or 
> add launch arguments to a client process.
We have an internal "command" system that is used to modify the "model" 
constructs like map, layer, edits graphics and so on. We have not yet 
made this available to a scripting engine - but you can certaintly start 
the experiment. 
> Can someone recommend a good form handler?  I would like to allow my 
> users to create and customize their client dialogs. 
The eclipse "world" has focused on the W3C xml form constructs - I have 
not checked in over the last year to see how this is progressing. The 
rough idea is an mess of xml defines a form - that can be turned into a 
user interface, or processed into a web page as needed.
> Finally, is this post appropriate, or is there a better forum to ask 
> these questions?
It is perfect Philip, even if uDig does not end up being your final 
choice it will be a great chance to work through some of your 
requirements. Currently I am at a conference, and do not have access to 
the links mentioned above. Lets hunt down some more information proceed 
with this conversation.

Jody
>  
> Thanks,
> - Philip Heineman
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