Thanks Andrea - that's helpful. I'll prepare a patch for StreamingRenderer.

Michael

On 24 August 2011 16:58, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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