[Thuban-devel] bounding boxes

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 06:09:00PM -0500, Jonathan Coles wrote:
> do all layers have bounding boxes? i would think so, but i just wanted
> to check. if so, what are people's thoughts on adding BoundingBox and
> LatLongBoundingBox into BaseLayer? both functions exist in Layer,
> RasterLayer, and wmsLayer, and it would be nice to be able to assume
> that all layers have these functions implemented in some way. 
> 
> i'm asking because i'd like to make the bounding boxes standard in the
> properties dialog.
> 
> in the same vein, i've added a funtion called Type() in BaseLayer which
> returns a string representing the type of the layer. For instance,
> "Unknown", "Image", or whatever kind of shape layer it is.

can you send a patch of these proposed changes? (seems like
you have already implemented it for testing :-)

	Jan
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