Re: [Geotools-devel] working gui example to display shapefiles

[Andrea A. <and...@al...>]

On Friday 23 April 2004 09:41, Michael Damberger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this applies to geotools2 B3 sources
>
> I'm trying to use geotools2 on a project to display a proprietery map
> format. I plan to implement the datastore interface,
> but first I want to try to display simplay a shapefile DB.
>
> I found the old example of Moomey (GisViewer) which works pretty well.
> == it displays shapefile maps.
>
> How can I easily do the same thing with geotools2 ?
>
> How can I use a shapefile with a MapPane?
> The following code does not work, see below. The featureSource "roadnet"
> is successfully obtained, but no RenderedLayer is created
> (renderedLayers.length==0)

Of course, since you did not provide any style. Use the StyleBuilder to create 
a simple line style, and also, have a look at the "Map and style tutorial"
on the Geotools2 confluence page for a simpler way to display a map:

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home

Best regards
Andrea Aime