[udig-devel] FAQs?

[Jesse Eichar]

On May 1, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Peter N. Schweitzer wrote:

> I'm new to uDig, running Linux (Slackware), and wonder if what I see
> is what should be expected.  My data sources are local shapefiles
> and PostGIS features (imported from shapefiles).
>
> 1. I don't get any information (no new tabs or windows appear)
>   when I select the "Info" tool and click on a polygon.  Is
>   this a known problem for Linux?
>

There's an issue with the browser integration on linux you have to  
set MOZILLA_HOME variable to something :P   You should be able to  
find the instructions online.

> 2. I cannot get the online help; I get a popup window titled
>   "Problems Opening Link" containing the message "Unable to
>   open web browser on {0}".  Is there some way to specify an
>   external application (Firefox) as the web browser?

Hmmm.  Eclipse allows you to do that but it seems we don't.  Fixing  
MOZILLA_HOME should fix this.  There is also a way you can specify  
the port of the server and then you could use firefox to hit that  
port and view the help... Mind you you'd still have to go to online  
help then open firefox.

>
> 3. I don't have the ArcSDE plugin and I don't need it.  Can I tell
>   uDig not to go looking for it, otherwise the log file gets lots
>   of exception information about this?

THis has been fixed for the next version.  You can also just delete  
the net.refractions.udig.catalog.arcsde_*  jar from the plugins  
directory.

>
> 4. I wish the layer style composer would allow an unlimited number
>   of unique values rather than a maximum of 12.  Then I could export
>   the SLD and customize it.  I don't want to group text values.
>   Does this make sense?

Yeah this is a common request and we're working on it.

Jesse