Realistically, CSVEventLayer is unlikely to be my long-term solution,
but it seems like a really great start.
For want of a metaphor, I'm thinking of trying to implement a soccer
game using it; the players run around a lot, but they also take actions
such as passing the ball to one another [and there are lots of balls,
and I want to overlay information about the players]. I'll have to think
about what's a usefully generic way to declare it. I also specifically
need to leave trails showing where players have been, ideally with the
ability to color different segments of the trail differently. [eg, red
might be when the player was carrying the ball and green when they
weren't]
I only heard about openmap because one model we're using at work uses
it. The model works off a mysql database, but... the authors of the
model's maptool implement a separate program in C++ that pushed to a
network link layer in openmap, and implemented their own timeslider
there [with rich control over what you get to see rendered]. It feels
like it might be better implemented by drinking the openmap component
kool-aid wholesale. Not sure.
We have other models that I would also like to use openmap for rendering
results from, but using link layer to model-specific tools seems less
appealing to building a common format that all these tools can export to,
and load using openmap components.
Out of idle curiosity, do you actually work at BBN?
Thanks,
Gary
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:18:09AM -0400, Don Dietrick wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> Thanks for the feedback, yours is the first I've received on these components. BBN uses them for projects, but you're the first to write in with comments and I appreciate it, since you're coming at it cold.
>
> I'll have to take a look at the visibility setting, there might be something else that needs to be set for it to be honored. It's been a little while since I've been in that code so I need to refresh my memory.
>
> - Don
>
>
> On Aug 17, 2013, at 11:13 PM, Gary Briggs wrote:
>
> >> What's the protocol for sending in patches? I'd like to modify
> >> CSVEventImporter to include a "description" property; the current one
> >> has "{name} moving" as the event description of all events, which isn't
> >> quite what I need.
> >
> > Well, either way, attached is a patch that implements:
> > 1) Descriptions
> > 2) Visibility [but ... ]
> >
> > But ... visibility doesn't seem to work.
> >
> > I call point.setVisible(visibility), but then it doesn't seem to be
> > honored. Am I missing something obvious, that there's a better way to
> > implement this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gary
> > <csvevent_description.diff>
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