Awesome!  This is probably long overdue.  :)  In the pull-down menu in the 
video, I see "Data directory", "Home directory" and "/".  What will display for 
the Windows users?

My hope is that it will be: data directory, home directory, and all of the 
roots of the drives (C:\, D:\, etc.)

Thanks,
Mike Pumphrey
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org


On 11/3/2010 6:41 AM, Andrea Aime wrote:
> Hi,
> lately I've been doing a GeoServer workshop and I suffered watching students
> stumble across some of the GeoServer GUI deficiencies.
>
> One of them is the lack of a file chooser when creating
> shapefile/directory/raster
> stores. Having to copy and paste the path, and sometimes make it relative
> to the data directory, is error prone and generally annoying.
>
> The patch I've attached to http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-4208 is meant
> to solve the issue.
> It provides a set of custom store panels for shapefiles, directory and
> rasters that
> come with a file chooser showing the server side file system and allowing to
> choose a path by point and click.
>
> I've made a quick screencast (sorry for the pitiful voice part of it)
> showing how that
> works:
> http://demo.geo-solutions.it/share/chooser.ogv
> (in order to view it outside of a Linux machine I suggest you install 
> VideoLan,
>   it's good and can play the OGG vorbis format the screencast is made with)
>
> If you can't see the screencast I've also attached a few screenshots to this
> mail.
>
> Highlights:
> - allows to chose both files and directories
> - provides quick access to user home and the data directory
> - it is data directory aware, so it will generate path that are relative to it
>    if you pick anything inside of $GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR/data
>
> Feedback welcomed. I'd like to commit this improvements soon,
> reviews for the patch I've attached to 
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-4208
> are also welcomed
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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> Senior Software Engineer
>
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> Via Poggio alle Viti 1187
> 55054  Massarosa (LU)
> Italy
>
> phone: +39 0584962313
> fax:     +39 0584962313
>
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> http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/
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>
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>
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