Re: [OpenMap Users] A little change to DistanceMouseMode, and other problems

Hi Piotr,

On Oct 26, 2003, at 5:20 PM, pitek wrote:

>  
> Don, what do you think about this little change in DistanceMouseMode?
> The GeoFormatter class could be, or could not be added to OpenMap if
> you like.
> But I think that separation of string formatting and distance
> calculation is
> important I'd like to see it in OpenMap's main source tree. This
> little change
> helps me a lot in changing DistanceMouseMode presentation with simple
> overriding of two methods.

I think you're right, separating the two is a good thing. Thanks for
the code, it makes it easier to incorporate the changes into the code
base.

>
> We could make this even better using strategy pattern. User could
> specify
> its own class for distance or coordinates presentation. For example
> instead of
> using InformationDelegator he/she could use its own GUI window.
> Instead of simple string/label presentation, complex JavaBeans GUI
> could be used.
> Such class could be specifed in properties file or dynamicaly change
> at run-time.

You can do that now, subclassing InformationDelegator to do what you
want, right? Ideally, InformationDelegator should have been an
interface, with the current implementation called something like
BasicInformationDelegator.

> Some time ago I wrote about changing ProjectionFactory class. Don, are
> you going
> to implement some kind of pluggable projections, as you wrote?

I'm trying, that's one of the things holding up the release, and I'm
incorporating your submissions as well.

> I'm facing again with localization problem. Did you rethink how to
> make OpenMap
> localization? The last e-mail thread finished without clear
> conclusion. I'd like
> to know how to make localization if I start doing it. Someone wrote
> about
> French localization. Is there any progress in this domain?

I haven't thought about it much more than when the discussion was more
active, but it's still in the plan. I liked the approach that Bart,
you and I were discussing, but I've been working on funded efforts.
They take priority with our time.

> Please let me know what do you think about those problems.
>

They're all good. Look for a release November 12, I hope all of these
things are in it.

- Don

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