Re: [udig-devel] Re: Changing coordinate programmatically

[Jody Garnett <jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay this is making a lot more sense now; if you are trying to have a 
dot move around on the screen like in the following video:
- http://www.opengeospatial.org/pub/www/ows3/index.html

You will not want to use a Feature ... to do real time animation; you 
will want:
- to place your real time information on the map blackboard (however 
often it arrives)
- either; create an animation (there is an example in the 
net.refractions.udig.tutorials.examples project) that draws this 
information on the screen at a set frequencey, or to create a map 
graphic that draws the information you put on the map blackboard

Now if you still want to update features (maybe you have thousands of 
dots moving on the screen and you are storing everything in a database?) 
use:
- a filter: filterFactory.id( filterFactory.featureId( "id of your 
feature ) )
- featureStore.update( filter, "the_geom", new Point( x, y ) )

The reason we were having trouble communicating before was that there is 
no pointer to a Feature; we don't store them in memory and you are 
always working on a "copy". Even when we are storing them in memory we 
only give out a copy (for thread safety).

Now for some problems; say animation; having the data in memory and 
using a pointer is a good plan - that is what you can do with the map 
blackboard and your own custom mapgraphic.

Cheers,
Jody

Tankut KORAY wrote:
> Hi Jody,
>  
> Thanks for your attention, I recently send some code snippet so you can see how I am getting my features.
>  
> I am trying to acomplish this: I will have some features in a layer and somehow I will get to that feature via iterators, querying, holding pointer to feature etc. (doesnt matter). Than I want to update its coordinates according to some info that I am getting from another source. (like a GPS device)
>  
> By the way, I will be doing this every often. (500ms or 1 sec) so another question is will this cause any performance problems?
>  
> I am a newbie so maybe I am getting this all wrong.
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