On 16/05/2011 11:58, Andrea Aime wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Jan De Moerloose
> <jan.demoerlo...@geosparc.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we have started to use the geotools rendering facilities in Geomajas,
>> but hit a couple of limitations:
>>
>> - StreamingRenderer apparently assumes simple features
> Not anymore, Ben's group made it work with complex ones as well.
> Maybe the work happened only on trunk, not sure if it was backported to 2.7.x
Interesting, i'll check out trunk.
>> - there is currently no support for DirectLayer as part of the MapContext
> Nor there is support in StreamingRenderer, which should first switch to
> use MapContent instead (and GS/uDig should migrate as a consequence)
>
>> are there any plans for both of these features and/or what would be the
>> best way for us to contribute on those ?
> There is a work in progress patch to migrate StreamingRenderer here:
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-3565
>
> I guess you can build on that one and provide a fuller one that also allows
> for DirectLayers to be used?
> Mind the renderer is multithreaded, so you cannot just take the layer
> and render it in the main thread anymore, it has to be turned into
> a drawing command to be sent to the painter thread instead (so that
> proper layer drawing order is preserved, besides the fact graphics
> is not thread safe)
Thanks, i'll have a look at the patches first.
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
cheers,
Jan

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Jan De Moerloose

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