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Tools have gotten a major usability improvement featuring:ToolPalette - used to quickly explore available tools, configure tool display to show labels, descriptions or large icons for a helpful hand when learning. By default the Palette is displayed ... [More] along side your Map; you can also Choose Show View > Other and Open the Palette on its own as a tear off View. This is great for users with more than one monitor or when you have multiple maps open side by side. This is the same Palette used during Page printing. ToolOptions - quick access to common tool preferences from the Map Status Line. This has allowed us to reduce the number of tools while maintaining the same functionality. These change combine to make uDig even more User-friendly with a presentation of tools similar to a paint program. As an example edit tools can use the area to make options such as "snapping" visible (previously available as a keyboard shortcut!). It is also an efficient use of screen real estate as snapping options do not waste space when they are not needed. PaletteHere are a couple examples how how the palette looks using the Large Icons preference. ExtensionuDig practices an open development model with a couple Request for Change proposals being closed today. As part of that the following pages have been updated in the user guide: Map EditorFor more information about what is new in the uDig 1.2 series see the user guide. And developer documentation for the new tool option functionality: ToolsThe good bit is covered here:public class OptionContribtionItem extends ToolOptionContributionItem { public IPreferenceStore fillFields( Composite parent ) { Button check = new Button(parent, SWT.CHECK ); check.setText("Scale"); addField( NavigationToolPreferencePage.SCALE, check ); Button tiled = new Button(parent, SWT.CHECK ); tiled.setText("Tiled"); addField( NavigationToolPreferencePage.TILED, tiled ); return ToolsPlugin.getDefault().getPreferenceStore(); } }; [Less]

Tools have gotten a major usability improvement featuring: ToolPalette - used to quickly explore available tools, configure tool display to show labels, descriptions or large icons for a helpful hand when learning. By default the Palette is ... [More] displayed along side your Map; you can also Choose Show View > Other and Open the Palette on its own as a tear off View. This is great for users with more than one monitor or when you have multiple maps open side by side. This is the same Palette used during Page printing. ToolOptions - quick access to common tool preferences from the Map Status Line. This has allowed us to reduce the number of tools while maintaining the same functionality. These change combine to make uDig even more User-friendly with a presentation of tools similar to a paint program. As an example edit tools can use the area to make options such as "snapping" visible (previously available as a keyboard shortcut!). It is also an efficient use of screen real estate as snapping options do not waste space when they are not needed. PaletteHere are a couple examples how how the palette looks using the Large Icons preference. ExtensionuDig practices an open development model with a couple Request for Change proposals being closed today. As part of that the following pages have been updated in the user guide: Map EditorFor more information about what is new in the uDig 1.2 series see the user guide. And developer documentation for the new tool option functionality: ToolsThe good bit is covered here:public class OptionContribtionItem extends ToolOptionContributionItem { public IPreferenceStore fillFields( Composite parent ) { Button check = new Button(parent, SWT.CHECK ); check.setText("Scale"); addField( NavigationToolPreferencePage.SCALE, check ); Button tiled = new Button(parent, SWT.CHECK ); tiled.setText("Tiled"); addField( NavigationToolPreferencePage.TILED, tiled ); return ToolsPlugin.getDefault().getPreferenceStore(); } }; [Less]

Tools have gotten a major usability improvement featuring:ToolPalette - used to quickly explore available tools, configure tool display to show labels, descriptions or large icons for a helpful hand when learning.By default the Palette is displayed ... [More] along side your Map; you can also Choose Show View > Other and Open the Palette on its own as a tear off View. This is great for users with more than one monitor or when you have multiple maps open side by side. This is the same Palette used during Page printing.ToolOptions - quick access to common tool preferences from the Map Status Line. This has allowed us to reduce the number of tools while maintaining the same functionality.These change combine to make uDig even more User-friendly with a presentation of tools similar to a paint program. As an example edit tools can use the area to make options such as "snapping" visible (previously available as a keyboard shortcut!). It is also an efficient use of screen real estate as snapping options do not waste space when they are not needed.PaletteHere are a couple examples how how the palette looks using the Large Icons preference. ExtensionuDig practices an open development model with a couple Request for Change proposals being closed today.As part of that the following pages have been updated in the user guide:Map EditorFor more information about what is new in the uDig 1.2 series see the user guide.And developer documentation for the new tool option functionality:ToolsThe good bit is covered here:public class OptionContribtionItem extends ToolOptionContributionItem { public IPreferenceStore fillFields( Composite parent ) { Button check = new Button(parent, SWT.CHECK ); check.setText("Scale"); addField( NavigationToolPreferencePage.SCALE, check ); Button tiled = new Button(parent, SWT.CHECK ); tiled.setText("Tiled"); addField( NavigationToolPreferencePage.TILED, tiled ); return ToolsPlugin.getDefault().getPreferenceStore(); } }; [Less]

Continuing on to uDig for a great gource visualisation showing the impact of a couple of code sprints in 2010; and a new development team starting up in 2011.Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqxXJ7bOBTg and the video itself is shown ... [More] below.Aside: This is a much better visualisation as I have been learning to gource control options (so the video tracks activity for a better view of what is going on).By popular request (on IRC) here are the command line options used for code.google.com/p/gource project.I started by using "camera-mode" track to make the action focused; I also really lowered the number of seconds used to represent each day so that we could quickly cover two years of development.gource -title uDig -1280x720 --camera-mode track --auto-skip-seconds 1 --seconds-per-day 0.05 -o udig.ppm And then I stitched the result into a movie using ffmpeg: ffmpeg -y -b 10000K -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i udig.ppm -vcodec libx264 -vpre slow -threads 0 -bf 0 udig.x264.mp4 [Less]

Continuing on to uDig for a great gource visualisation showing the impact of a couple of code sprints in 2010; and a new development team starting up in 2011.Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqxXJ7bOBTg and the video itself is shown ... [More] below.Aside: This is a much better visualisation as I have been learning to gource control options (so the video tracks activity for a better view of what is going on).By popular request (on IRC) here are the command line options used for code.google.com/p/gource project.I started by using "camera-mode" track to make the action focused; I also really lowered the number of seconds used to represent each day so that we could quickly cover two years of development.gource -title uDig -1280x720 --camera-mode track --auto-skip-seconds 1 --seconds-per-day 0.05 -o udig.ppm And then I stitched the result into a movie using ffmpeg: ffmpeg -y -b 10000K -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i udig.ppm -vcodec libx264 -vpre slow -threads 0 -bf 0 udig.x264.mp4 [Less]

Continuing on to uDig for a great gource visualisation showing the impact of a couple of code sprints in 2010; and a new development team starting up in 2011.Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqxXJ7bOBTg and the video itself is shown ... [More] below.Aside: This is a much better visualisation as I have been learning to gource control options (so the video tracks activity for a better view of what is going on).By popular request (on IRC) here are the command line options used for code.google.com/p/gource project.I started by using "camera-mode" track to make the action focused; I also really lowered the number of seconds used to represent each day so that we could quickly cover two years of development.gource -title uDig -1280x720 --camera-mode track --auto-skip-seconds 1 --seconds-per-day 0.05 -o udig.ppm And then I stitched the result into a movie using ffmpeg: ffmpeg -y -b 10000K -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i udig.ppm -vcodec libx264 -vpre slow -threads 0 -bf 0 udig.x264.mp4 [Less]

Jody has done a geat difusion task in FOSS4G2011 Denver. He leaded the uDig code sprint. It looks like the people have had a good time as is shown in the event's snapshots. Emily Gouge has been working to fix up some bugs in the uDig paltform. Mauricio has begun the development of uDig Weather.

Jody has done a geat difusion task in FOSS4G2011 Denver. He leaded the uDig code sprint. It looks like the people have had a good time as is shown in the event's snapshots. Emily Gouge has been working to fix up some bugs in the uDig paltform. Mauricio has begun the deveolopment of uDig Weather.

The community is working to improve the user experience in uDig. - Levi Putna and Jody Garnett are presented the Map Status Bar Tool Options idea, that will allow a better access to the different tool options.- uDig will have a new useful tools ... [More] Smart Buffer, it have been proposed by Levi Putna. - Jesse and Andrea have provided feedback and good advices to carry out those ideas.- Jody was cleaning the java 5 compliance from uDig platform code to allow to use the override annotation with the java 6 semantic (to override interface signatures).- Mauricio is advancing in the udig Weather vision. He was analyzing the GUI requirements for the weather desktop. [Less]

The community is working to improve the user experience in uDig. - Levi Putna and Jody Garnett are presented the Map Status Bar Tool Options idea, that will allow a better access to the different tool options.- uDig will have a new useful tools ... [More] Smart Buffer, it have been proposed by Levi Putna. - Jesse and Andrea have provided feedback and good advices to carry out those ideas.- Jody was cleaning the java 5 compliance from uDig platform code to allow to use the override annotation with the java 6 semantic (to override interface signatures).- Mauricio is advancing in the udig Weather vision. He was analyzing the GUI requirements for the weather desktop. [Less]