On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Michael Bedward <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, especially Andrea and Jody, > > I'm working on a new map pane class in gt-swing to provide the much > requested ability to have custom graphics and animations drawn over a > map. People will sub-class DirectLayer to do their custom stuff. This > layer class draws itself rather than being passed to a renderer. > > Now I'm wondering if we should allow a MapContent instance containing > one or more DirectLayers, and possibly other Layer types, to be passed > to a StreamingRenderer and have the renderer ignore the DirectLayers, > or whether it is better to prevent the renderer ever seeing > DirectLayers ? My first thought was that DirectLayers should not > reach the renderer and I had started writing gt-swing code to this > effect. However, my second thought was that I should check with wiser > heads.
Imho it's better to have it be handled by the streaming renderer too, I never put effort in that direction only because so far I haven't had a need for it. The thing is, interactive swing maps are not the only possible use of these layers, maybe people want to build a tile seeding tool that generates tile caches out of a set of shapefiles, or a minimal map server, or might already have their own swing classes. Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
