It is quite some time I saw these demos and they were based on rather small
datasets and very limited functionality in the user interface.
I hear from many others that the GUI of .NET applications can be quite slow,
where you can even see the visual items being drawed on the screen. And I
guess a GIS application would be especially prone to such a problem.
But a few more details from Moshe Binyamin would be interesting.
Regards
Uffe
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Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 11:42 AM
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Uffe
I haven't seen PG demos run - was it so slow? .NET isn't inherently slow.
Was it the panning and screen updating, perhaps?
IL Thomas
GeoSciSoft - Perth, Australia
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Kousgaard
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 4:10 PM
To: Mapinfo-L
Subject: Re: [MI-L] Project Grande Terminated?
Dear all,
My guess is MapInfo Corp. stopped the project because we could have ended
up
with something even slower than ArcGIS. That would have been a disaster
for
the product. The existing user interface isn't that bad, so you have to
look
at pro's and con's.
Remember the grass isn't always greener on the other side, once you get
there.
Let's hope they start working on a 64-bit native version instead of going
the slow .NET route. Perhaps even with some of the desired improvements
included.
As a developer of 3rd party add-ons for MapInfo (RouteFinder in
particular),
this also has the implication we can spend our resources on adding new
functionality in future versions instead of rewriting code.
And a big thanks to Moshe Binyamin for letting us know, what is going on.
Kind regards
Uffe Kousgaard
www.routeware.dk
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