[udig-devel] Couple minor annoyances about RC12

[Jesse Eichar]

Ok thanks a ton.  I'll have to find another way to identify the home  
directory.

Jesse

On Oct 3, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Parks, Aaron B. wrote:

> Alas, no.  Udig is on the same drive as my Home directory, but this is
> interesting:
>
> If I do:
>
> Echo %HOMEPATH*
>
> All I get is
>
> \
>
> IF I replace that part of the link with a straight path:
>
> "c:\somedirectory\udig"
>
> It works like a charm.
>
> Could the issue be an improperly set %HOMEPATH% on people's machines?
>
> AP
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:udig-devel-bounces at lists.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Jesse
> Eichar
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 1:37 PM
> To: User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS
> Subject: Re: [udig-devel] Couple minor annoyances about RC12
>
>
> On Oct 3, 2007, at 6:34 AM, Parks, Aaron B. wrote:
>
>> RC12 is cool and does render stuff much faster.  I'm about to  
>> launch a
>> pilot program converting some GT 2.0 (styled map pane) stuff to
>> Udig, so
>> you may be hearing more from me.  In the mean time, here are some
>> minor
>> annoyances with RC12:
>>
>> 1)  My start menu launcher doesn't work.  I know this has been
>> beaten to
>> death but I thought I would mention it.
>>
>
> I have recently found a new issue when uDig is not installed on the
> same drive as the user's home.  Is this the case with you?
>
>> 2)  If you right click on the catalog, select import, data, files  
>> that
>> will pop up a browse window.  If you cancel that window, hit back,
>> then
>> go to files (again) and hit next all you get is a blank window.
>
> Fair enough.  I've noticed that.
>
>>
>> 3)  Import a shape file and put it on a map.  Go back to import and
>> select several huge (I used .5 to one gig) shape files.  After  
>> several
>> minutes of processing only the first layer indexed will be listed
>> in the
>> catalog.  This seems to only occur if you index several large
>> shps.  You
>> can get the layers listed by leaving the tab and coming back.  Once
>> listed they render fine.
>>
>
> Exellent bug.  We need a more efficient indexer.  It uses a ton of
> memory.  That is probably the problem.  Often for large shapefiles I
> still use the mapserver's indexing tool shptree I think is what it is
> called.
>
> Jesse
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