[udig-devel] Help with simple plugin

[Cory Horner]

Pedro Da Ros wrote:
> I took a look on the tutorials (I had seen only the one on the site,
> the "distancemeasure" one), and they helped me getting started on the
> plugin, as I managed to add a button to the toolbar and create a map
> and a layer when the user clicks the button :).
> 
> But I've been struggling for over 2 hours trying to add features to
> the layer but I cant... tried to create a feature schema and set to
> the layer but couldnt... nor create individual features (managed to
> create a feature collection with empty feature type, but didnt manage
> to create the features itself to populate the collection). I could
> create "Point"s, but didnt manage to convert them to Features to add
> to the layer.
> 
> I couldnt find the example that reads from an ASCII file and renders
> to a layer, that one should cover my problem, I think.

Pedro,

I've written a crude tutorial here:

http://svn.geotools.org/udig/community/chorner/net.refractions.udig.tutorials.txtDataStore/

but haven't had time to clean it up or document it well.  It may help 
you out though, as it does successfully read points in from an ascii 
file (i believe the format was x,y one per line.

Cheers,
Cory.