Re: [JPP-Devel] List Etiquette and "Non-English" Speakers

2007-06-26 Thread Nacho Uve
2007/6/26, Sunburned Surveyor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I just wanted to let everyone know that there is no need for members of our community that use English as a second language to apologize for their grammar and spelling. I think we all recognize that OpenJUMP has a global user and developer comm

Re: [JPP-Devel] Fwd: Writing Help File and "Non-English Netiquette" (Giuseppe)

2007-06-26 Thread Giuseppe Aruta
--- Sunburned Surveyor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: SS Scribus runs very slow on my computer, I still don't know the reason (maybe because I use Windows? Maybe the version of Scibus?). As I do not want to spend time to solve this problem, I go on writing with Openwriter. If you send me the

Re: [JPP-Devel] RenderManager optimized for Interactive vs. batch processing

2007-06-26 Thread Larry Becker
Sascha, Thanks for checking it out. No rush. > I'm still a bit concerned that the hole expensive rendering is done >inside the event dispatch thread. I have to test if this may lead to >trouble elsewhere. I also got a little concerned about the effect of GUI blocking on ZoomToSelectedItemsP

[JPP-Devel] Using Openjump. Obsevations, Ideas, etc (Peppe)

2007-06-26 Thread Giuseppe Aruta
Dear Developers After using Openjump for a while I wrote some observations and ideas that I had (as user, not as developer). I do not want to open a discussion, and probabily some of these points have no "common feeling" or probabily always had answer. I want only to share with you my experienc

Re: [JPP-Devel] Using Openjump. Obsevations, Ideas, etc (Peppe)

2007-06-26 Thread Paul Austin
I'm currently working on a whole bunch of enhancements to the styling, specifically around the concept of Theming layers by multiple attribute values. Part of this is a framework to be able to define the filters to select features to match. As part of this I have implemented a very simple way o

Re: [JPP-Devel] Fwd: Writing Help File and "Non-English Netiquette" (Giuseppe)

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
All good comments Peppe! Please see my responses below. Peppe wrote: "As I do not want to spend time to solve this problem, I go on writing with Openwriter. If you send me the Opendoc template I can coordinate my job to yours." I'll get you a document template for OpenOffice that you can use if y

Re: [JPP-Devel] Using Openjump. Obsevations, Ideas, etc (Peppe)

2007-06-26 Thread Larry Becker
Hi Peppe, Thanks for your input. We don't get enough of the user perspective on the list. Regarding transferring styles, I would point out the very useful copy style and paste style functions in OpenJump. Also, in addition to Paul's efforts, I will be porting over SkyJUMP's Merge Task funct

[JPP-Devel] R: Using Openjump. Obsevations, Ideas, etc (Peppe)

2007-06-26 Thread P . Rizzi Ag . Mobilità Ambiente
I would add the possibility to save Datastore query definitions inside JMP files along with "normal" layers. This would be _very_ useful, at least for me... Also the Datastore API should be enhanced to support saving. Even a simple "Save To Datastore..." would be enough (a real _update_ would be g

Re: [JPP-Devel] Using Openjump. Obsevations, Ideas, etc (Peppe)

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Peppe, This is great feedback, and I see that Larry and Paul have already commented. Let me respond to a couple of the things that you mentioned. Peppe wrote: "Setup question. I started to suggest Openjump to my friends or students. The main difficulty I found with people is connected to Java ma

Re: [JPP-Devel] Using Openjump. Obsevations, Ideas, etc (Peppe)

2007-06-26 Thread Larry Becker
@SS, Regarding bundling the JRE, I think that there are still some things that are still misunderstood about the seriousness of the issue. Since we started bundling the JRE with SkyJUMP, our install problems have dropped to practically nothing. Before we did, there was a new install problem p

Re: [JPP-Devel] Using Openjump. Obsevations, Ideas, etc (Peppe)

2007-06-26 Thread Paul Austin
I think there is a case for two installation packages. 1. Including JVM for the novice Java user 2. Without JVM for those who know what they are doing. Paul Larry Becker wrote: > @SS, > >Regarding bundling the JRE, I think that there are still some > things that are still misunderstood about

Re: [JPP-Devel] Using Openjump. Obsevations, Ideas, etc (Peppe)

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Larry, You highlight some of my ignorance about the way Java programs access the JRE, and how the JRE is updated. Would you be able to point out some documentation that discussed the process, and the advantages, of packaging a JRE with your program? You may have changed my mind on this, but I wo

[JPP-Devel] Startup scripts

2007-06-26 Thread Andreas Schmitz
Hello, I was just wondering if anyone is using the startup script for unix. It seems it has Windows/DOS line endings... If nobody has any objections, I would check in a new version, together with an enhancement that automatically adds any libraries in the lib directory to the classpath (this make

Re: [JPP-Devel] Using Openjump. Obsevations, Ideas, etc (Peppe)

2007-06-26 Thread Larry Becker
SS, The attached ReadMe.txt file is distributed with the JRE. I used it as a guide for what to include. regards, Larry On 6/26/07, Sunburned Surveyor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Larry, You highlight some of my ignorance about the way Java programs access the JRE, and how the JRE is updated.

Re: [JPP-Devel] Startup scripts

2007-06-26 Thread Paul Austin
Hi Andreas, Please post a copy of your script so that we can review it. All, as a general note for things like UNIX shell scrips and windows batch scripts the file should have the svn:eol-style property set see http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s02.html#svn-ch-7-sect-2.3.5 Paul Andreas S

[JPP-Devel] Freedesktop desktop file for JUMP

2007-06-26 Thread Paul Austin
All, I have attached an English language .desktop file for JUMP to this email. This would be placed under /usr/share/applications/ For this to work you will need to have an executable file on the PATH, see attached openjump file, this would go into /usr/bin and be configured to point to the

Re: [JPP-Devel] Startup scripts

2007-06-26 Thread Andreas Schmitz
Paul Austin wrote: Hi, > Please post a copy of your script so that we can review it. here you go: #!/bin/sh # To make this script executable, use chmod a+x JUMPWorkbench-unix.sh # You may need to uncomment the next three lines on some linux systems (Fedora?) # JUMPHOME=/usr/local/jump/bin # J

Re: [JPP-Devel] Using Openjump. Obsevations, Ideas, etc (Peppe)

2007-06-26 Thread Rahkonen Jukka
Hi, Lähettäjä: [EMAIL PROTECTED] puolesta: Giuseppe Aruta Lähetetty: ti 26.6.2007 17:29 >6)Editing tools (not very seriuos!) >It would be nice to have some editing tools in a >"Inkscape-like" style. >Examples, tranfering some editing tools on the mouse: >a) one left-click mouse>edit/move object

Re: [JPP-Devel] Startup scripts

2007-06-26 Thread Nacho Uve
Hi Andreas, It's true... I changed file format using 'dos2unix' program... Can it be solve? It's a little unconfortable. Regards, Nacho 2007/6/26, Paul Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Andreas, Please post a copy of your script so that we can review it. All, as a general note for things like

Re: [JPP-Devel] Startup scripts

2007-06-26 Thread Paul Austin
Andreas, I have made some changes in the attached file that will allow users to customize the settings by creating a ~/.jump/openjump.profile where they can add additional JAVA_OPTS and generally change settings. The script also uses basename on the command so you don't have to deal with set

Re: [JPP-Devel] Startup scripts

2007-06-26 Thread Andreas Schmitz
Paul Austin wrote: Hi, > I have made some changes in the attached file that will allow users to > customize the settings by creating a ~/.jump/openjump.profile where they > can add additional JAVA_OPTS and generally change settings. That's a good idea. > The script also uses basename on the c

Re: [JPP-Devel] User Plug-In Survey

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Or it might be possible that we only have 6 users. :] SS On 6/21/07, Geoffrey G Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear SS > > Only 6 responses so far, it is possible that some additional prompting > may be necessary. > > Geoff > > Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > > Geoff, > > > > What type of response

Re: [JPP-Devel] User Plug-In Survey

2007-06-26 Thread Larry Becker
User participation in the jump-list has always been pretty sparse. Makes you wonder. I wonder what the 1200 people who downloaded OpenJump in the last 60 days are doing with it? Larry On 6/26/07, Sunburned Surveyor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or it might be possible that we only have 6 users. :

Re: [JPP-Devel] Fwd: Re: Edgar's CTS and core

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Pedro, Sorry about the delay. I am just getting to some of my e-mail. I think we will have to think seriously about tapping into the GeoTools code for reprojection when we get the opportunity to do so. I'm sure we can use Edgar's work as the basis for this plug-in. The Sunburned Surveyor On 6/2

Re: [JPP-Devel] Rendering problems affecting the quality of printing

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Larry, This is a great post. Thanks for documenting some of the problems we are having with the rendering system. Perhaps I need to take a crack at these with my pluggable renderering system, instead of stand alone labels. I'll give this some thought. The Sunburned Surveyor On 6/25/07, Larry Bec

Re: [JPP-Devel] JTS/CursorTool side effects with shared vertices from shapefile?

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
This seems like a really important post, and I regret coming into it so late. Sascha's idea about eliminating duplicate coordinate objects in large polygon layers and linesting layers is interesting. I have some questions for him on that, but I will put them in another thread so things don't get s

Re: [JPP-Devel] Load/Save dataset design

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
I'd be in favor of trying to consolidate the "save your data" functionality into a single dialog box or other UI Component and eliminating the old or redundant GUI components. I'm pretty sure everyone else will agree. Is there something that I can do to help you with this Michael? (That is, if you

Re: [JPP-Devel] Startup scripts

2007-06-26 Thread Paul Austin
Can anyone on linux give the attached script a test and make sure it works before we check it in What file name shall I give the checked in version? I like just using openjump rather than having a .sh and platform on the end. Although we could create a generic build that has all of the start s

Re: [JPP-Devel] JTS/CursorTool side effects with shared vertices from shapefile?

2007-06-26 Thread Larry Becker
I think the thread has not reached any conclusions yet. There are issues with both approaches to saving memory. More study is needed. Regarding modifying Coordinate objects, we may be closing the barn door after the horses escaped. Larry On 6/26/07, Sunburned Surveyor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [JPP-Devel] Freedesktop desktop file for JUMP

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Paul, This is great! I've been wondering how to get a nifty little desktop icon for OpenJUMP on GNOME... I'll see if I can get your file to work on my Linux box this weekend. SS On 6/26/07, Paul Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > I have attached an English language .desktop file for J

Re: [JPP-Devel] Using Openjump. Obsevations, Ideas, etc (Peppe)

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Thanks Larry. I'll take a look at the Readme file. SS On 6/26/07, Larry Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SS, > > The attached ReadMe.txt file is distributed with the JRE. I used > it as a guide for what to include. > > regards, > Larry > > On 6/26/07, Sunburned Surveyor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [JPP-Devel] User Plug-In Survey

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Maybe it is just one guy downloadin 1200 times because he doesn't want us to face the reality of a project that is only used by developers. :] Seriously, maybe we should consider a user only list for OpenJUMP. I think most of our user traffic ends up on the JUMP user list anyways. (Or maybe Vivid

Re: [JPP-Devel] Startup scripts

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Paul, Can you wait until this weekend? I will try it on my Debian box at that time. It sounds like I need to add some of the modifications you made to the script that I am using in my temporary Linux distribution of OpenJUMP. I think you are a more advanced Bash user than I, so I'll have to use m

Re: [JPP-Devel] JTS/CursorTool side effects with shared vertices from shapefile?

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Larry, You wrote: "I think the thread has not reached any conclusions yet. There are issues with both approaches to saving memory. More study is needed." I'm sorry if I confused things. I didn't say we should implement Sascha's idea, just that I thought it was interesting. :] Larry wrote: "Reg

Re: [JPP-Devel] Freedesktop desktop file for JUMP

2007-06-26 Thread Paul Austin
SS, When deploying the files you can put them in directories under either of the following locations /usr/share -- global location /usr/local/share -- all users local machine ~/.local/share -- local to the user If you have the version gnome menu editor, have a look under ~/.local/share/applica

Re: [JPP-Devel] Startup scripts

2007-06-26 Thread Paul Austin
I can wait until it's tested, send me an email if you have any questions on the bash stuff. Paul Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > Paul, > > Can you wait until this weekend? I will try it on my Debian box at > that time. It sounds like I need to add some of the modifications you > made to the script t

Re: [JPP-Devel] Startup scripts

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Thanks Paul. I'm putting this on my weekend to do list. SS On 6/26/07, Paul Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can wait until it's tested, send me an email if you have any questions > on the bash stuff. > > Paul > > Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > > Paul, > > > > Can you wait until this weekend? I

Re: [JPP-Devel] Freedesktop desktop file for JUMP

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Thanks Paul. I'll check on this over the weekend as well and will get back to you with feedback. I really need to get these developments packaged up into another temporary Linux distro and put together some short docs on using OpenJUMP on Linux. SS On 6/26/07, Paul Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: [JPP-Devel] Startup scripts

2007-06-26 Thread Paul Austin
I'm putting this on my todo list this weekend http://www.imba.com/epics/comfortably_numb.html if the weather cooperates Long weekend here in Canada :) - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C -

[JPP-Devel] Planning For Future Collaboration With GeoTools

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
I've been working quitely with Jody Garnett off the mailing list. We've been exlporing opportunities for GeoTools/OpenJUMP collaborartion. We've decided that we shouldn't let our different FeatureModels be an unsurmountable obstacle to cooperation. We are investigating other areas where we can wor

Re: [JPP-Devel] Startup scripts

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
That hurt... (I'm acutally a volunteer with the US Forest Service and hope to spend some time in the mountains myself this weekend.) :] SS On 6/26/07, Paul Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm putting this on my todo list this weekend > http://www.imba.com/epics/comfortably_numb.html if the w

[JPP-Devel] Tapping into GeoTools Projection Code

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Jody has offered to help if there is interest in prefecting/fixing the code that Edgar wrote for Coordinate Projection using the GeoTools library. I'd take this on myself but I have already made a lot of other commitments. If we have any takers I will let Jody know. This sounds like a great oppor

Re: [JPP-Devel] Startup scripts

2007-06-26 Thread Paul Austin
Hi SS, Hope you have a great time in the mountains, was in Oregon a month ago and loved it down there. Paul Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > That hurt... > > (I'm acutally a volunteer with the US Forest Service and hope to spend > some time in the mountains myself this weekend.) :] > > SS > > On 6/2

Re: [JPP-Devel] Load/Save dataset design

2007-06-26 Thread Michaël Michaud
Hi SS, Seems like most people are uncomfortable with the duplication of load/save menu items. Firstly I will need to have a closer look at the involved code. At the moment, I just need time as I work quite slowly. ;-) Thanks for helping, Michaël Sunburned Surveyor a écrit : >I'd be in favor o

Re: [JPP-Devel] Planning For Future Collaboration With GeoTools

2007-06-26 Thread Paul Austin
SS, I would like to be involved in these discussions as it will allow me to migrate away from maintaining my own feature model and readers. Paul Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > I've been working quitely with Jody Garnett off the mailing list. > We've been exlporing opportunities for GeoTools/OpenJU

Re: [JPP-Devel] Planning For Future Collaboration With GeoTools

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
This is great Paul. I'll make sure that you are included in all my future conversations with the GeoTools developers in this area. Thanks for participating. SS On 6/26/07, Paul Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SS, > > I would like to be involved in these discussions as it will allow me to > m

Re: [JPP-Devel] Tapping into GeoTools Projection Code

2007-06-26 Thread Larry Becker
I have a question about Coordinate Projection in JUMP. Does it happen when the dataset is opened (as with ArcMap)? If so, what happens when you save the dataset? Is it saved in the original projection (i.e. reprojected back) or is it saved with the new projection? I can see use cases for both.

Re: [JPP-Devel] Load/Save dataset design

2007-06-26 Thread Larry Becker
> Seems like most people are uncomfortable with the duplication of > load/save menu items. Not me. Of course, I remember why the Save as File was created in the first place. It was to get rid of that darn Format menu in the upper left of the dialog that confused everyone. SkyJUMP has a new twis

Re: [JPP-Devel] Tapping into GeoTools Projection Code

2007-06-26 Thread Paul Austin
Hi Larry, If you "open" a file or load records from the database I would typically want the features to retain their original projection and reproject on the fly when rendering them in a different projection. The reason for this is to ensure you don't artificially create any coordinate drift w

Re: [JPP-Devel] Tapping into GeoTools Projection Code

2007-06-26 Thread Larry Becker
Hi Paul, Yea, once you open the door on projection-on-the-fly, the use cases multiply like rabbits. We have to consider what implication reprojection has on the edit tools. I'm concerned about coordinate drift too. If you edit during projection-on-the-fly server access, you are forced to repr

Re: [JPP-Devel] Tapping into GeoTools Projection Code

2007-06-26 Thread Martin Davis
In the code we wrote at Vivid, reprojection was only done when requested, on data load. Trying to implement reprojection on the fly gets you into all kinds of gnarly design issues - I'm sure Jody can fill you in on the fun they had in uDig trying to make this work transparently. I could see r

[JPP-Devel] Fwd: Planning For Future Collaboration With GeoTools

2007-06-26 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > I've been working quitely with Jody Garnett off the mailing list. > We've been exlporing opportunities for GeoTools/OpenJUMP > collaborartion. We tagged in Andrea for a couple of rounds as well. > We've decided that we shouldn't let our different FeatureModels be an > un

Re: [JPP-Devel] User Plug-In Survey

2007-06-26 Thread Geoffrey G Roy
Perhaps they are not using the User discussion list - is it possible to contact them directly Geoff Larry Becker wrote: > User participation in the jump-list has always been pretty sparse. > Makes you wonder. I wonder what the 1200 people who downloaded > OpenJump in the last 60 days are doing

Re: [JPP-Devel] JTS/CursorTool side effects with shared vertices from shapefile?

2007-06-26 Thread Sascha L. Teichmann
Sunburned Surveyor schrieb: > [...] > Sascha's idea about eliminating duplicate coordinate objects in large > polygon layers and linesting layers is interesting. I have some > questions for him on that, but I will put them in another thread so > things don't get so confusing. > [...] If they are