mapeditor dosen't work as a plugin

Jody Garnett added a comment - 06/Mar/08 3:21 PM It would be good to chat with you via skype or IRC and go over this patch. I have restructured the UDIGApplication class so the "test JAI" and "test GDI" methods are available for other application writers. Other than that I was holding off on this use-case in the hopes that switching to the Eclipse 3.3.x menu extension point would help matters. I have documented the menus required by a hosting application on the wiki but I admit that is not solution.

Jody Garnett added a comment - 07/Mar/08 1:59 PM IRC conversation: lotu: ping jgarnett lotu: okay lotu: you here? jgarnett: I am here now jgarnett: (I am just doing a user interface mock up for this: http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/HACK/Temporal+Support+with+a+Navigation+View) jgarnett: so what I would like to do is go over your patch; what you were trying to accomplish jgarnett: and review how you went about it. jgarnett: and then give you the go ahead to apply the patch. lotu: alright, looking jgarnett: as you can see others have been here before us; and made a bit of a mess. jgarnett: however one of the udig guidelines; is code it like you mean it! jgarnett: can I just confirm that you have svn access? lotu: no I do not jgarnett: I am willing to split the work with you; I can apply the patch to trunk/ jgarnett: okay that will be the first step; can you send an email to admin@refractions.net and we will get you set up jgarnett: mean while lets find a link to your bug report.... lotu: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/UDIG-1369?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_126389 jgarnett: my next question is; we took a few steps in the right direction for RC14 - we seperate out the udig product stuff from net.refractions.udig.ui jgarnett: did that help you when you placed udig into your existing app? lotu: Not really, right now we are just using uDig as a set of plugins to eclipse. jgarnett: okay jgarnett: your bug report says "I have used to patch to allows udig to load all it's functionally as an Eclipse plugin." jgarnett: what do you mean exactly jgarnett: did you change to the new menu extention point; or place a bunch of null checks in ... lotu: I think I just fixed a bunch of the null checks that were borken and throwing exceptions. jgarnett: sounds good jgarnett: now remember I said people had been hacking before us; there were/are actually two ways to "setup" your menus in udig lotu: yes I noticed that problem jgarnett: some stupid extention point they made in a hurry; and the usual RCP way jgarnett: (grumble) jgarnett: did you have to fix both cases? kartben [n=kartben@pur31-3-82-240-189-250.fbx.proxad.net] entered the room. lotu: no I just made a small patch to fix the RCP way jgarnett: understood jgarnett: okay well lets get you svn access and then you can apply the patch jgarnett: I will review as I merge it onto trunk? lotu: Alright jgarnett: and thanks for taking the time to talk on IRC; this would of taken longer on email. lotu: So where should I be applying the patch to jgarnett: 1.1.x lotu: okay cool jgarnett: let me know the svn revision as a comment on the bug report jgarnett: and I will apply that to trunk lotu: alright jgarnett: so we should get back to you on svn login stuff real soon jgarnett: (and welcome to open source development) jgarnett: we try and make it easy lotu: thank you

Harry Bullen added a comment - 07/Mar/08 5:55 PM I've applied a quick patch at r29572. This allow uDig to work but some menus (Layer and Map) don't show up at all.

Jody Garnett added a comment - 07/Mar/08 8:43 PM Thanks - reviewed and applied to trunk as of -r29575

Jody Garnett added a comment - 07/Mar/08 8:46 PM You are correct; the developers guide has some documentation about that if you are interested. I am interested in your feedback; to really work on this I need a "normal" RCP app in tutorials that we can use as a test victim. Perhaps the Hello World RCP app would do... You may also want to check that the ActionSets are turned on in your perspective for some of the Map / Layer menus?