Hi Alexander, Thanks for the explanation. Yes, the improved plugin would be beneficial for many, I suspect. How does your plugin handle mixed geometries? That led to a crash with the ftools plugin.
Cheers, John On Mar 6, 2011, at 8:02 AM, Alexander Bruy wrote: > Hi John, > > On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 10:40:54 -0800 > John C. Tull <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The only problem I had was with Merge Shapefiles. If I tick the 'Select by >> layers in the folder', I cannot choose a folder in the dialog. The Ok button >> never becomes available when trying to select a folder. I can select a >> shapefile and the OK button is available. I might be misunderstanding what >> this option is intended to do. When turning it off, I can select a folder, >> but the tool crashed qgis. This was because my folder had mixed geometry >> types. See output below. I suppose this crash should be avoided somehow. > > 'Select by layers in the folder' checkbox allow you to select and > merge only some shapes not all available in folder. This can be usefull > when in folder many shapes with different geometries or when you need > only to merge only certain files. > > When this checkbox turned off tool will work with whole folder, but note > that there is no geometry checks and output file will have same geometry > as first pocessed file. This behaviour is fixed in separate MergeShapes > plugin from GIS-Lab. I'll port it to fTools soon. > > Also there is a ticket http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3077 related to > Merge shapefiles tool crashes > > -- > Alexander Bruy _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
