Re: [udig-devel] Creating new dataset from selected features.

[Jody Garnett <jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Sampson wrote:

> Jody,
>
> thanks for the repsonse....
>
> Devel env for UDIG. Nope, is there a tutorial on setting one up I 
> assume its java and eclipse. no experience with java or eclipse other 
> than having tried setting up the environment and java SDE once and 
> messed things up large. Scared ever since.

Well we do have a Quickstart, development env takes about 30 min to set up.

> how would I be able to preview the tutorial to see if I would even 
> want to try?

Well the raw source code is here:
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http://svn.geotools.org/udig/trunk/tutorials/net.refractions.udig.tutorials.shpexport/

But the course that goes along with that is something you have to fly me 
out for.

> If there is ever a need for acid testers of exporting shapes I can 
> help as I'm constantly splitting, merging, cutting, clipping and 
> filtering shapes files (but stuck in the ESRI world for that). If I 
> get a good result then I know right away, if I don't I can try to 
> forward what went wrong. Who do I talk to in order to help out?

The devel list (and me). So you are doing it already.

Lets try another approach. I want to set up a community section for the 
project. Where extra stuff that is not ready for prime-time can live. If 
I can setup a shape export wizard there you can try it out, and we can 
refine it until you are happy (and then include it in the public release).

As I said earlier showing up with a problem and testing time is a very 
good way to contribute to an open source project.

> I'll dump some thoughts in the bug tracker (wishlist).

Thanks!
Jody