Questions on the SDK Demo App

[James_In_Utah]

Hi,
Very nice demo. I'm looking forward to working with it. By the way, there is a checkbox with placenames on the demo app, and it is checked by default, but I don't get any placenames. Does anyone else see any placenames? Has anyone extendend the sample to draw lines, or icons on the display?
Thanks,
James

[withak]

I know I saw placenames working before but they aren't for me at the moment. Probably server flakiness or something. Icons are already there, and I think they said lines/polygons are on the todo list.

[patmurris]

Placenames are definitly there. I've seen them myself - and on several screenshots from the various blogs (here, here and here) that have been posting about WWJ during the last days.

[James_In_Utah]

Can you tell if the Landsat imagery is being downloaded from the same servers? It is much much slower than I normally experience in WW from work.

[bull]

Should be the same, I think the dl code is slower.

[Guest_Jim_*]

This brings something to my mind, will WWJava in a later form be able to use the same cache as the .Net version? I'm not sure if it can be set up to do that now because I'm not sure as to how to change where the cache is of WWJava and all of the images appear to be dds not jpg. Can WWJava only take dds at the moment or is it just that, for some video cards, dds files are more quickly rendered?

[withak]

They use the same folder/file structure so you would just have to make your java app right now pass in the same cache location as the .net client. IIRC, dds is what video cards use internally, so saving them this way saves the step of reading the jpg and converting to dds.

[James_In_Utah]

You should easily be able to point your WW /Cache folder to the same place WWJ Demo is downloading. I think "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\WorldWindData" should work....
James

[Guest_Jim_*]

Originally Posted by James_In_Utah

You should easily be able to point your WW /Cache folder to the same place WWJ Demo is downloading. I think "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\WorldWindData" should work....
James

I could do that but I have World Wind on its own partition so I would have to shift about 10 GB over to that location, and have to change several files because I currently have the config files specifying jpg or png files as opposed to dds. For now the cache placement isn't an issue, but it would be nice if the ability to move the cache folder, as in .Net, was granted. But this probably doesn't need to worried about to much since WWJava is only version 0.2. By version 1 though, it may be more important, and not just to me.

[bull]

the tile structure is not identical, if they have a leading 0 this is removed in the java version, well thats what someone on irc said IIRC.