[josm-dev] adding projections through plugins

Dirk Stöcker openstreetmap at dstoecker.de
Wed Jan 5 17:38:44 GMT 2011


On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Frederik Ramm wrote:

>   I want to write a plugin that adds a projection. Since the projection is 
> somewhat outlandish I don't want to add the projection to the core.
>
> Existing plugins that do this go the somewhat clumsy route of having their 
> own menu button or something because they cannot add themselves to the static 
> final projection list defined in the interface Projection.java.
>
> I suggest moving this "master list" of projections to the 
> ProjectionPreference class where it could then be modified by plugins.
>
> Ok?

Please use something like "addProjection()" at a proper place, so we can 
change internals later. I already suggested something alike to the one 
doing the other external projection plugin, but it seems he lost interest 
in that topic.

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