I merged this long lived topic branch. Merging was quite difficult but it's done now.
I hope I did not brake Jocelyn mind. Any comment and feedback are welcome. 2009/10/24 Guilhem Bonnefille <guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I implemented some stuff on top of Jocelyn's patch. My topic branch is: > http://repo.or.cz/w/viking/guyou.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/new-maps > > The most notable change concerns the autodownload feature. When > autodownload is set and when the map source allows to download new > tiles, so tiles are redownloaded everytime. This involves more > bandwidth usage, but helps to have a screen uptodate. > > Another interesting change concerns thread concurrency. > > > Any comments are welcome. > Can I merge this stuff on master? > > > > 2009/9/7 Guilhem Bonnefille <guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com>: >> I'm still unable to release, but I can comment some contribs. >> >> 2009/4/4 Jocelyn Jaubert <jocelyn.jaub...@gmail.com>: >>> * first patch is there to only download maps from the server if >>> the map file that we already have locally is not up to date. This >>> adds an option for each map type so that we know if the corresponding >>> server handles or not this feature - google maps didn't support >>> this, and there might be other servers which doesn't work correctly. >>> In this patch, this is only enabled for OSM maps. >>> >>> To note: the temporary file is now used as a lock to prevent >>> multiple download of the same file. This leads to a problem if >>> viking is closed when a download is running (fixed in following >>> patches) >>> >>> This also slightly changes the download UI. The options for a >>> map layer are now: >>> - Download missing Onscreen Maps >>> - Download new Onscreen Maps from server (for maps that allow this) >>> - Refresh Onscreen Tiles (this download all maps from the server) >>> http://github.com/jocelynj/viking/commit/9b21e6756450d5712c8db02fb59859bebad0ddc7 >> >> My first comment concerns labels of these actions. I know this was >> already discussed with Quy, but I still feel labels quite confusing. >> Perhaps can we detail actions in tooltips? >> >> My second comment: do you think it is possible to add an automatic >> download mode? >> Currently, we have: Automatic download=yes/no. >> IMHO, it would be really usefull to be able to specify that a map >> should automatically download new tiles. Is it possible to hack viking >> in this way? >> >> Use case: >> 1) I add an OSM based map (regurlarly updated) >> 2) I select "Automatic download=refresh new tiles" (or something like this) >> 3) viking draws map with cache and check each viewed tile against >> server. If a new one is available, it is automatically downloaded. >> >> >> Best regards, >> -- >> Guilhem BONNEFILLE >> -=- JID: gu...@im.apinc.org MSN: guilhem_bonnefi...@hotmail.com >> -=- mailto:guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com >> -=- http://nathguil.free.fr/ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day >> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on >> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >> _______________________________________________ >> Viking-devel mailing list >> Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel >> Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/ >> > > > > -- > Guilhem BONNEFILLE > -=- JID: gu...@im.apinc.org MSN: guilhem_bonnefi...@hotmail.com > -=- mailto:guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com > -=- http://nathguil.free.fr/ > -- Guilhem BONNEFILLE -=- JID: gu...@im.apinc.org MSN: guilhem_bonnefi...@hotmail.com -=- mailto:guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com -=- http://nathguil.free.fr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Viking-devel mailing list Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/
