Re: [Qgis-developer] Fwd: Threads in sextante

2012-05-14 Thread kimaidou
Hi all +1 for using QProcess. I am using it in Lizmap Plugin to run external librairies (winSCP on windows, lftp on linux), and it works great. You can easily connect signals like readyReadStandardOutput(), readyReadStandardError() and finished(int, QProcess::ExitStatus) to your plugin methods. M

Re: [Qgis-developer] Displaying help for Python plugins

2012-05-14 Thread Alexander Bruy
Hi Larry, 2012/5/13 Larry Shaffer : > You can use QDesktopServices [0] in lieu of QGIS openURL(), but I think you > probably know this already: > > QtGui.QDesktopServices.openUrl(QUrl(some_url)) Yes, I know how to open any link in default system browser and how to implement simple HTML viewer wi

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: show grid on map canvas (similiar to grid used in composer) - strategy?

2012-05-14 Thread John Donovan
On 13 May 2012 22:49, Etienne Tourigny wrote: > Hi folks, > > there have been a number of interesting suggestions, I will try to > summarize them this week. > > Basically I think there could be 2 concurrent and complementary ways > to implement grids: > > 1) basic grid in core, similar to what is

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: show grid on map canvas (similiar to grid used in composer) - strategy?

2012-05-14 Thread Etienne Tourigny
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:43 AM, John Donovan wrote: > On 13 May 2012 22:49, Etienne Tourigny wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> there have been a number of interesting suggestions, I will try to >> summarize them this week. > >> >> Basically I think there could be 2 concurrent and complementary ways >> t

Re: [Qgis-developer] show grid on map canvas (similiar to grid used in composer) - strategy?

2012-05-14 Thread Etienne Tourigny
Hi Bob, Output looks really nice but I see 2 issues: 1 - grass is optional, not part of qgis core 2 - made for PS output, may not fit nicely with the composer nor the map canvas Perhaps there is a workaround for 2 ? Etienne On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Bob and Deb wrote: > I wonder if htt

Re: [Qgis-developer] show grid on map canvas (similiar to grid used in composer) - strategy?

2012-05-14 Thread Bob and Deb
I was mostly interested in seeing qgis having similar grid symbology to ps.output. On May 14, 2012 9:51 AM, "Etienne Tourigny" wrote: > Hi Bob, > > Output looks really nice but I see 2 issues: > > 1 - grass is optional, not part of qgis core > 2 - made for PS output, may not fit nicely with the c

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: show grid on map canvas (similiar to grid used in composer) - strategy?

2012-05-14 Thread Larry Shaffer
Hi John, On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:43 AM, John Donovan wrote: > On 13 May 2012 22:49, Etienne Tourigny wrote: > ... > > > > Basically I think there could be 2 concurrent and complementary ways > > to implement grids: > > > > 1) basic grid in core, similar to what is already in the composer map >

Fw: [Qgis-developer] crash on startup

2012-05-14 Thread Pedro Venâncio
Hi, Sorry to insist, but still unable to start QGIS on Debian Wheezy. I appreciate any support. Thank you very much! Best regards, Pedro - Forwarded Message - From: Pedro Venâncio  Hi, I'm also experiencing this problem after the last Debian (Wheezy) upgrade. I tried this soluti

[Qgis-developer] Re: Removing old labelling

2012-05-14 Thread kfj
Nathan Woodrow wrote > > > Any objections for removing the old labelling stuff? > Is there anything the old one can do the new one can't? > I have several issues with the new labelling engine. - I can only set an angle if I also set x and y coordinates (which I have to artificially add as fie

Re: [Qgis-developer] Blocking issues?

2012-05-14 Thread Etienne Tourigny
Hi devs, I was wondering what is the current status of 1.8 release. I have a number of new features I would like to create pull requests for, but I guess it is better to wait until 1.8 release before that. Etienne On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote: >> ok, then can we clos

Re: Fw: [Qgis-developer] crash on startup

2012-05-14 Thread Salvatore Larosa
Il giorno lun, 14/05/2012 alle 10.51 -0700, Pedro Venâncio ha scritto: > Hi, > > Sorry to insist, but still unable to start QGIS on Debian Wheezy. > > I appreciate any support. > > Thank you very much! Hi Pedro, probabily depends on the last Qt update in Debina wheezy! Did you try to recompi

Re: [Qgis-developer] Blocking issues?

2012-05-14 Thread Giovanni Manghi
Hi Etienne, On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 16:17 -0300, Etienne Tourigny wrote: > Hi devs, > > I was wondering what is the current status of 1.8 release. I have a > number of new features I would like to create pull requests for, but I > guess it is better to wait until 1.8 release before that. http://

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: show grid on map canvas (similiar to grid used in composer) - strategy?

2012-05-14 Thread John Donovan
Hi Larry and Etienne, Thanks for being brave! On 14 May 2012 18:48, Larry Shaffer wrote: > > I tried your Grid Overlay plugin and this is what I found. > > Same error as Etienne reported: > > > Traceback (most recent call last): >  File "/home/tourigny/.qgis/python/ > plugins/grid_overlay/gridplu

[Qgis-developer] Trying to build qgis in Win

2012-05-14 Thread Anibal Alarcon
Hello, I'm trying to build qgis in my virtualized WinXP (with a little change in a simple marker) and have one question and one problem... The batch with the enviroment that both has the VC++ and the OSGeo4W variables leave in blank PYTHONPATH is correct? And when I run the batch I get : The system

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: show grid on map canvas (similiar to grid used in composer) - strategy?

2012-05-14 Thread Larry Shaffer
Hi John, On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:36 PM, John Donovan wrote: > Hi Larry and Etienne, > Thanks for being brave! > > On 14 May 2012 18:48, Larry Shaffer wrote: > > > > I tried your Grid Overlay plugin and this is what I found. > > > > Same error as Etienne reported: > > > > > > Traceback (most re

[Qgis-developer] new regression on to-be 1.8: crs attribution on newly loaded layer broken

2012-05-14 Thread Mathieu Pellerin
Something's seriously wrong with CRS attribution for newly added layers in qgis-master (soon to be 1.8). I have no idea what is happening, however the steps below will reproduce the issue: 1) Add moeareas.shp (uploaded as attachment in issue 5598: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5598) to a QGIS project

Re: [Qgis-developer] Blocking issues?

2012-05-14 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 14/05/2012 21:22, Giovanni Manghi ha scritto: > http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/issues?query_id=23 > > I recently spotted another bug that caused a crash but Alex promptly > fixed it. So far then the above 3 tickets are still the confirmed > regressions. Other things are surfacing but

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: Removing old labelling

2012-05-14 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 14/05/2012 20:17, kfj ha scritto: > I'd propose the new labelling engine is worked over. I have seen others > complain that it doesn't do as they expect. I can't use it for the reasons > given above, so I'd have a hard time if the old engine was removed. This has been discussed earlier. New la