On 16/10/2010, at 18:52 , Giovanni Manghi wrote: > > >> On my old win laptop qgis (standalone install 1.5.0, on vista) handles all >> the vector data I can throw at it fine. >> If I point it at an ecw, qgis just straight crashes. A windows dialog box >> appear saying "qgis.exe has stopped working". Most of my rasters are ecw. >> Is this what yours did or is this a different problem? > > > This is weird: > I have a 1.5 osgeo4w installation and it works just fine with ecws. You > need to copy the dlls from the *old* sdk, but then it works just fine > with no crashes at all. > > If you copy the dlls from the sdk available now in the erdas site, ecw > will not open. The gdal16-ecw plugin available in the osgeo4w installer > was based in the old sdk. But still no crash in any case.
And that might be the difference. As this was my first go at Quantum, I took the standalone approach. This says it can do ECWs but in *my* case very rarely does. I was going to have a go at the osgeo4w approach if I had time tomorrow. -ramon._______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
