Re: [Qgis-developer] Preventing bad raster filenames - advice?
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Il 08/05/2013 05:12, Nyall Dawson ha scritto: > > > I'm thinking it's probably best to make the file name edits read only, > > > Before I make this change, does anyone have any ideas on alternative > > ways to handle this situation? > > Hi Nyall, > thanks for taking this; you jit a soft spot, saving rasters is implemented > in > different ways within QGIS, something that has to be corrected sooner or > later. > I agree that browsing rather than typing the filename is a good practice. > I do not agree this should be made compulsory: most dialogs remember the > last used > dir, so just changing the filename is faster than browsing. > IMHO, better fix the crash upstream. > yes better to make sure the filename contains path when file dialog is not used. > All the best. > - -- > Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia > www.faunalia.eu > Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc > Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlGJ5o8ACgkQ/NedwLUzIr6iBQCfdHk/G7TOq25lwgdv4hYer7VT > qgMAn0pn/0HLZtFDzwil6mdLSCXSMk4y > =X6Jc > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > ___ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
Re: [Qgis-developer] Preventing bad raster filenames - advice?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 08/05/2013 05:12, Nyall Dawson ha scritto: > I'm thinking it's probably best to make the file name edits read only, > Before I make this change, does anyone have any ideas on alternative > ways to handle this situation? Hi Nyall, thanks for taking this; you jit a soft spot, saving rasters is implemented in different ways within QGIS, something that has to be corrected sooner or later. I agree that browsing rather than typing the filename is a good practice. I do not agree this should be made compulsory: most dialogs remember the last used dir, so just changing the filename is faster than browsing. IMHO, better fix the crash upstream. All the best. - -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlGJ5o8ACgkQ/NedwLUzIr6iBQCfdHk/G7TOq25lwgdv4hYer7VT qgMAn0pn/0HLZtFDzwil6mdLSCXSMk4y =X6Jc -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
[Qgis-developer] Preventing bad raster filenames - advice?
Hi all, I'm after some quick advice - in investigating http://hub.qgis.org/issues/7624 I've tracked the crash down to users entering a destination raster filename without a path (only occurs under Windows). If they use the "..." button next to the filename field then the full path is correctly filled in and no crash occurs. While the bug report is specifically for the heatmap plugin I've since noticed this behaviour applies to some other areas too, such as the raster calculator dialog. I'm thinking it's probably best to make the file name edits read only, so the only way to choose a destination file is by clicking the ... button and using the file chooser dialog. This will force the destination filename to be a full absolute path. (After all, if a user enters a relative path for the destination there's no way of identifying what they'd like it to be relative to..! The input file? The project?) Before I make this change, does anyone have any ideas on alternative ways to handle this situation? Nyall ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
