[udig-devel] FAQs?

[Jesse Eichar]

Hmm.  Just tested the OSX version and it works fine.  I suspect that  
the problem still is MOZILLA_HOME and the view isn't showing up  
because of an exception loading the browser.  Could be wrong though.   
Maybe I missed a plugin required by it on linux.  What does the  
Welcome page look like to you?

Jesse

On May 1, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Peter N. Schweitzer wrote:

> Jesse Eichar wrote:
>> On May 1, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Peter N. Schweitzer wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Thanks for such a quick response!
>
> But I mean there is no "Information view" as Walkthrough 1 shows
> on its page 29.  And there is no information view among the choices
> in the menu appearing when I choose Show View from the Windows menu.
> Is this really related to the browser integration problem?

Huh... No longer convinced
>
>>> 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.
>
> Does Eclipse have its own preferences file?
>
> I modified my .profile to add
> export MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/firefox
> export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/firefox
> and also did
> $ su
> # cd /usr/lib/firefox
> # ln -s firefox mozilla
> Now I get log entries like this:
>
> !ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2007-05-01 15:17:28.307
> !MESSAGE XPCOM error -2147221164
> !STACK 0
> org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: XPCOM error -2147221164
>        at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser.error(Browser.java:1328)  
> [more...]
>
> I'm at a loss.  Is Firefox incompatible with Eclipse?
>
>>> 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.
>
> Worked like a charm.  Thanks!
>>> 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.
>
> I guessed this might be on the to-do list.  For now I can use your
> SLDs as models and generate appropriate SLDs.
>
> Peter
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