René Estrella wrote: > Can anybody tell me what is the current state of GISWidgets? Is is > already usable? Does it include widgets for a map pane and for a legend? > > Thanks.
Hi René, obviously you didn't recieve my response a week ago, did you? I tried the SourceForge mail interface as well but obviously it didn't work either. Hm... Here is (more or less) what I wrote: --- I am the only developer on the project (unfortunately, new developers are welcome!) and do sporadic development when it fits my spare time schedule and interest - mainly in winter, of course. ;-) The project is in development phase, so some widgets are not yet stable, most are however usable, but API changes can occur. See below. In the former "GeoWidgets" project there was a milestone release 1, which still is the latest released version. https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144947 For "GISWidgets" (after the rename) there hasn't been an official release yet. The latest code is on the GISWidgets SVN. It contains significant advances over the mentioned milestone 1, which contained only the CRS selection widgets. The "usable" widgets on SVN are: SWT/JFace and Swing: - Measurement Unit dropdown (based on several implementations) - Coordinate axis dropdown (the same) - Widgets for choosing coordinate reference systems, based on the EPSG library and GeoTools 2.3.0 Swing only: - A map scale selection dropdown (simple but convenient) - A "JRangePanel" for dividing a numerical range into subranges (will be handy in a styling widget which is under development) Last I was working on an ambitious styling widget, but got into a discussion about SLD styles vs. my own requirements with GeoTools and not much came out of if, so developement on this came to a halt. There is not yet any map pane! GeoTools has a simple Swing map pane, but they are as well looking for someone to bring it up-to-date afaik. I had written my own SWT-based "legend widget" (or better "map layer widget"), but it worked not with GeoTools, but was based on another model of mine, so I am not sure it would help anybody except me. The GeoTools map/map layer model was too restricted for my liking. So no "official" legend widget either. UDig also has several SWT-based(!) widgets in use, but it will be hard to separate them out, if you "just" need a map pane. Please reply if you still have interest or questions. --- Notes: 1. I don't send the documentation to this mailing list because of its size. Give me a working email (rene_estrella <at> users.sourceforge.net doesn't work for me) and I can send to to you if you like. 2. I just had another go on the source code - maybe I can make some progress on the styling widget :-) -- Matthias Basler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
