[josm-dev] adding projections through plugins
Dirk Stöcker
openstreetmap at dstoecker.de
Wed Jan 5 17:55:03 GMT 2011
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Dirk Stöcker 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.
P.S. You don't BTW want to add libproj4 support (at least for Linux).
Would be very nice ...
Ciao
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