[udig-devel] udig life cd

[Jody Garnett]

Andrea Antonello wrote:
> 1) the udig executable has no command line arguments? For example to
> pass it a project to be loaded. I couldn't find any.
>   
It takes the same kind of command line arguments as the eclipse.exe - so 
you can set the directory it
uses for its configuration settings and so on.

At a more fundamental level you can replace the code it uses to store 
preferences (say to database
rather then files); this is something we have looked into in the past.
> 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.
>   
You can supply a command line argument; or change the ini file to 
specify a different location.
> 3) the data instead should be no problem, even if readonly, just you
> will not be able to change the style, right?
>   
Well you can change the presentation; just not save the change. I do 
think jesse tries to write out
the project file all the time (perhaps this decision would need to be 
changed).  The seek time on a CD
is horrible - so the rendering experience would be very bad.
> 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?
>   
The raster support should cover all this - but the raster support is not 
available for uDig 1.1 (we need
to update our version of GeoTools).
> 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?
>   
Not sure I understand that ... they can create the viewer just using the 
plugins (the product is only helping
you manage what plugins are used - you could do it all by hand).
> Thanks for any help that you will (hopefully) give me :)
>   
Cheers,
Jody