Improving the model

Later I had worked on the logical model. Among other things Balloon has classes responsible to render graphic object and classes responsible to load data. I have just improved this using an event/listener mechanism.
Also I turn many java classes on JavaBeans, firing property change events and so on that helps to improve the client programming.

Finally I have divided the load process between synchronous (working in the update thread) and asynchronous process (working in a new thread). For example, to load WMS images the load process starts as a synchronous process, checks if the images is cached in the local disk and if so loads it, otherwise changes it to an asynchronous mode and loads data from the network server.

Probably it must be better to write some docs to help the future programmers of Balloon ;)

WMS and cached images

This is a little demo which works with WMS layers with some cached images.



Other time, sorry by poor quality but (1) my video card is not so good and it is very dificult to execute and capture at the same time, and (2) youtube takes a lot of quality.

Working with WMS server

Here is a demo video working with WMS server.
The first step in the wizard is to select the WMS server and the second step is to select the layer (or layers) you want to load.
The load speed depends both on the server and your network speed. As you can see in the vieo, my network speed is poor.
Also I want to note my computer is not so good to work with balloon at the same time we are recording screen. In addition YouTube lows the qualitit of the movie.

A couple of demo videos

Here are the first demo videos of the balloon in action.
Unfortunately I captured it only at 10 FPS to save space and also YouTube reduce it much more, making the false ilusion it is slow.

Here are a basic work with georeferenced images and the GUI layout:


Here you can see how easy is to work with shapefiles (with lat/lon data):