Re: [Qgis-developer] In with the new, out with the old?

2011-03-09 Thread Nathan Woodrow
allini wrote: > Il giorno mer, 09/03/2011 alle 10.20 +1000, Nathan Woodrow ha scritto: > > Sounds like a plan, I'll add that to the TODO list not sure when I'll > > get to it though. > > Hi Nathan. > is you TODO list public somewhere? All th

[Qgis-developer] Error opening ECW in latest trunk with OTF raster support.

2011-03-09 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi all, I can't seem to open ecw files in the latest trunk build, I get a can "not open GDAL dataset {ecw name}" I was able to open them before the new raster OTF projection merge. Running XP, QGIS r15395 Can anyone else confirm? - NathanW ___ Qgis-de

Re: [Qgis-developer] Error opening ECW in latest trunk with OTF raster support.

2011-03-09 Thread Nathan Woodrow
art "Quantum GIS" /B "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%"\apps\qgis-dev\bin\qgis.exe %* Exactly the same as before the update. - Nathan On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Ramon Andinach wrote: > > On 10/03/2011, at 06:31 , Nathan Woodrow wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I

Re: [Qgis-developer] Error opening ECW in latest trunk with OTF raster support.

2011-03-09 Thread Nathan Woodrow
#x27;t > turn OTF on. > > Sorry, I'm not able to help more. > > > On 10/03/2011, at 06:59 , Nathan Woodrow wrote: > > > Pretty it knows where everything is; this is my qgis-dev.bat: > > > > @echo off > > > > SET OSGEO4W_ROOT=M:\TEMP\QGIS &g

[Qgis-developer] Launching qgis-dev on windows to show command line.

2011-03-09 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi all, This maybe a real noobish question. I'm trying to get qgis r15395 to show debugging info in the console window on windows; if I check the about dialog it says "This copy of QGIS write debugging output" but nothing is shown when I launch from the command line. I have tried calling qgis-d

[Qgis-developer] QGIS not displaying geometries from ogr provider

2011-03-17 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi All, I wrote a blog post a couple of days ago about opening MS SQL Spatial geometries and it worked fine then but the latest revision can't seem to display them. It opens the table correctly, detects the geometry type right and I can even browse the table but no geometries are displayed. This

Re: [Qgis-developer] A new public git repository of qgis trunk, with auto daily update

2011-03-30 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I think Tim was going to bring up moving to git officially at the next "hackfest", or what ever it is called now, not sure where it would then be hosted but I really like github. I like the forking and pull requests interface which I think would work well with coding efforts. - Nathan On Wed, Ma

Re: [Qgis-developer] GRASS vectors unusable on win

2011-04-05 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I'm not sure how much help I will be but I will have a look into what might be happening over the next couple of days. I use that plugin at work and I don't really want it dropped from the release. - Nathan On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Hi all. > IMHO, the GRASS vect

Re: [Qgis-developer] In with the new, out with the old?

2011-05-16 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Il giorno mer, 09/03/2011 alle 10.20 +1000, Nathan Woodrow ha scritto: > > Sounds like a plan, I'll add that to the TODO list not sure when I'll > > get to it though. > > Hi Nathan. > is you TODO list public somewhere? All the

Re: [Qgis-developer] QBrowser & Customization

2011-05-18 Thread Nathan Woodrow
For what it's worth, my opinion on B1) is we should have icons. Good UI is important and icons help the user relate to items quicker more so then just a plain text based tree. - Nathan On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Radim Blazek wrote: > Hi all, > we are ready (Martin Dobias and me) to merge

Re: [Qgis-developer] DBManager plugin for QuantumGIS (GSoC 2001)

2011-05-24 Thread Nathan Woodrow
would be a great win. Just my thoughts. - Nathan Woodrow On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Giuseppe Sucameli wrote: > Hi Radim, > > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Radim Blazek wrote: > >> First of all, IMO, the DBManager has to be implemented in QGIS core, >> not as a plu

Re: [Qgis-developer] a SQL console as new feature

2011-05-24 Thread Nathan Woodrow
est (to > me) > > of having an SQL console, which makes gis user life really better. > > Doing it with mapinfo appears to be easier because is only have one > > proprietary format to handle. But orbisgis, which is also a foss able to > > handle several formats, provides the

Re: [Qgis-developer] a SQL console as new feature

2011-05-25 Thread Nathan Woodrow
y have done it and see if something can be done like that in QGIS. http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/EN/Common+Query+Language <http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/EN/Common+Query+Language>I'll keep you posted on progress. - Nathan On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7

Re: [Qgis-developer] a SQL console as new feature

2011-05-25 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Thanks Martin, I'll check them out. I have seen them before but never really looked into them. - Nathan On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Martin Dobias wrote: > QgsSearchString ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://li

Re: [Qgis-developer] release of 1.7

2011-05-31 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I think releasing as a beta would be a good idea, that way we get 1.7 release out but users know it's not fully done. This way it also gives us more time to do bug fixing. - Nathan On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Werner Macho wrote: > +1 for me for Paolos suggestion .. > I think releasing 1.7

Re: [Qgis-developer] One more idea how to deal with low budget and user needs

2011-06-03 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I like the look of the first one as it's more aimed at developers. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Il 03/06/2011 08:27, Paolo Cavallini ha scritto: > > Il 02/06/2011 20:05, Ivan Mincik ha scritto: > >> 1- http://www.bidforfix.com/ > > > > looks extremely interesting. anyb

Re: [Qgis-developer] Fwd: SAGA Interface for QGIS - Weekly report

2011-06-04 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Looking good. My hope onces this is all done is to be able to rewrite all the tools in fTools to use the framework. That way eventually everything can be linked together and called in the same way. - Nathan On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Camilo Polymeris wrote: > Hello, > > This week, I code

Re: [Qgis-developer] Fwd: SAGA Interface for QGIS - Weekly report

2011-06-06 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Haven't had a good read though the code yet, just skimmed over it, I'll have a look some time today and let you know if anything pops up. - Nathan On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Camilo Polymeris wrote: > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Nathan Woodrow > wrote: > > Lookin

Re: [Qgis-developer] Embedding of layers and legend groups from other projects

2011-06-08 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Barry, That sounds like a handy plugin. I was going to writing something like that ages ago but now I don't have to :). Pretty please release it. - Nathan - http://woostuff.wordpress.com/ On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Barry Rowlingson < b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8,

Re: [Qgis-developer] a SQL console as new feature

2011-06-13 Thread Nathan Woodrow
ed but > > unfortunetly I don't think I could handle that alone, since I don't know > the > > QGIS API yet, I don't speak fluently python (but I can play with it) and > I > > don't have that much time. > > > > Just let me know > > > >

Re: [Qgis-developer] a SQL console as new feature

2011-06-14 Thread Nathan Woodrow
hitecture, since it changes the way you handle all inputs and queries. > But for now, it just has to be a proof of concept . > How inputs are taken in charge for now? I guess there is already an > abstraction layer or something, no? > > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Na

[Qgis-developer] New Python console idea: Expanding the Python console to handle DSLs for plugins eg CADTools

2011-06-16 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Python console is still running Python commands unless told otherwise. I would appreciated any feedback anyone has. I'm not a python expert so the code could be done better if done for real but at the moment it's just rough to get the idea out there. Regards, Nathan Wo

Re: [Qgis-developer] New Python console idea: Expanding the Python console to handle DSLs for plugins eg CADTools

2011-06-16 Thread Nathan Woodrow
That sounds like a pretty good idea too. Shoudn't be too hard to whip up a prototype for that. On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Barry Rowlingson < b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Nathan Woodrow > wrote: > > > I would appreciat

Re: [Qgis-developer] New Python console idea: Expanding the Python console to handle DSLs for plugins eg CADTools

2011-06-16 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I was just thinking about this: People might think they can mix python variables with variables in > other DSLs. Which would be tricky. Well would that be such a bad thing? The DSLs can return a object from the evaluated string so why not let them be mixed. This would mean you can do things lik

Re: [Qgis-developer] New Python console idea: Expanding the Python console to handle DSLs for plugins eg CADTools

2011-06-17 Thread Nathan Woodrow
ich at that point it's up it to worry about evaluating and replacing the values and functions. Thoughts? On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Barry Rowlingson < b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Nathan Woodrow > wrote: > > > Well would that be s

Re: [Qgis-developer] Numeric decimal field for Postgres...

2011-06-23 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Joze, This seems top be related top handling null values. If you change the values (via the pgadmin) to 0 QGIS can update them. Can you open a ticket on the bug tracker. - Nathan 2011/6/23 Jože Detečnik > Uhh. In 1.7 and above versions I can't enter new numeric value for field > Numeric (1

[Qgis-developer] Create crash report in windows

2011-06-26 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi all, What is the easiest way to generate a crash report in Windows. In linux I normally use gdb but I'm getting hard crashes on my XP install at work and would like to find out where it is crashing out. - Nathan ___ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: forum.qgis.org

2011-06-28 Thread Nathan Woodrow
+1 for moving to redmine for wiki. Having everything in one place would be a good thing, less logins; one syntax; good time to clean up dead links and old info; etc etc - Nathan On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Pirmin Kalberer wrote: > Am Dienstag, 28. Juni 2011, um 12.21:21 schrieb Otto Dassau

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: [SoC] QGIS mobile weekly report #5

2011-07-05 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Maybe something like this could be considered when designing the GUI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu http://www.istartedsomething.com/20110628/radial-menu-love-for-bing-visual-search-prototype/

Re: [Qgis-developer] Virtual columns in QGIS, was: Re: [Qgis-user] object labels

2011-07-28 Thread Nathan Woodrow
would create a new virtual >> column, just like a virtual column in a database view. >> >> Otherwise one would have to develop the same functionality several times - >> for labeling, for tooltips, etc. >> >> Do you think it would be feasible to implement this o

Re: [Qgis-developer] Virtual columns in QGIS, was: Re: [Qgis-user] object labels

2011-07-28 Thread Nathan Woodrow
esssions, such as : colA || '(' > || colB || ')' (here I am using the postgresql || syntaxe ) > > kimaidou > > > > 2011/7/28 Nathan Woodrow > >> +1 from me too. A virtual column would be a very handy feature however >> you must be able to add o

Re: [Qgis-developer] Shields for Labels

2011-08-07 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I think that is a good idea and the implementation is in the correct place. I would like to see it in trunk, as I have a project that already need something like this. Yeah I wouldn't use SVG for label stuff, labels need to be as fast as possible and I think it defiantly would have killed performan

Re: [Qgis-developer] Breaking API and merge of threading branch

2011-08-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
+1 for starting now. Better to start early so we and plugin devs can start moving over, esp regarding the multi threading API, then leave it till the end. I think we could also generate some kind of report with API changes, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6596364/tracking-c-lib-public-api-

Re: [Qgis-developer] Export MAPINFO: field DATE,DATETIME, ...

2011-08-12 Thread Nathan Woodrow
As far as I know this is a limitation of the MapInfo ogr driver that QGIS uses http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mitab.html Mainly this section: Only Integer, Real and String field types can be created. The various list, > and binary field types cannot be created. I'm sure it could be patched to sup

Re: [Qgis-developer] Feature request Zoom out variably

2011-08-14 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Not sure what you mean as QGIS already has this functionality/ - Nathan. On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:45 AM, lasse_larsson <018695...@bredband.net>wrote: > The zoom out tool could maybe be improved by working more like > ArcMap/Mapinfo. > I find it very useful to be able too zoom out much or little

Re: [Qgis-developer] Feature request Zoom out variably

2011-08-14 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I don't know if this behaviour is a bug or a feature - it doesn't work as > ArcMap/Mapinfo which might turn potential users down a bit. > > > all the very best, > Anders > > On 2011-08-14 22:39, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > > Not sure what you mean as QGIS already

Re: [Qgis-developer] QgsExpression: replacement for QgsSearchString

2011-08-21 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Looking good Martin. No objections from me. The old QgsSearchString was a bit string in the way it handled a few things so I'm glad it's been simplified in your chances. I'm just merging with my expression labeling branch, which used QgsSearchString at the moment. I will report if I find any bug

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-community-team] New QGIS logo

2011-08-31 Thread Nathan Woodrow
While I think the QGIS icon needs a revamp for 2.0 I'm not sure that new one does it for me personally. I have been in contact with a company here in Australia who said they are happy to sponsor a 99designs.com (http://99designs.com/logo-design) competition for the new QGIS logo. The best part is

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-community-team] New QGIS logo

2011-09-01 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Is anyone willing to pool a bit more money in to go with Simon's effort. The more money the better chance of getting some good logos. - Nathan On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:56 AM, MORREALE Jean Roc wrote: > As it seems to be the choice of the majority, let's do it the right way : > so Simon, please

[Qgis-developer] Native MS SQL 2008 Driver for QGIS

2011-09-05 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi all, There has been some interest from a company here in Australia to develop a MS SQL driver/provider for QGIS. IMO this is a good move as most local governments, where I work and where I push my QGIS agenda, pretty much all use MS SQL 2008 spatial for storing spatial data. Having a driver fo

Re: [Qgis-developer] Native MS SQL 2008 Driver for QGIS

2011-09-05 Thread Nathan Woodrow
We shouldn't need any external libraries, Qt has a built in ODBC driver that you can use to connect to MS SQL. I tried it this arvo in PyQt. - Nathan On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Il 05/09/2011 14:34, Marco Hugentobler ha scritto: > > I also think that a native QGIS

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: API 2.0

2011-09-12 Thread Nathan Woodrow
FYI http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6596364/tracking-c-lib-public-api-changes I asked a question on there on how we can generate a report with API changes. If we could weave this into the build process it would be even better. - Nathan On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Werner Macho wrote: >

Re: [Qgis-developer] DB Manager release

2011-09-15 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Mayeul, The symbol levels for rule based renderer has been in trunk/master for a while now. Was added at https://github.com/qgis/Quantum-GIS/commit/9d113540971093fc9ed4dfcb9b4d46e1ac934824 - Nathan On Fri, Sep

[Qgis-developer] Feature: Auto saving for layers

2011-09-16 Thread Nathan Woodrow
would love if people would be able to test it for me and make sure I haven't made any mistakes while coding (still newish to Qt & C++). [1] http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4135 Regards, Nathan Woodrow http://woostuff.wordpress.com/ ___ Qgis-develope

Re: [Qgis-developer] Feature: Auto saving for layers

2011-09-17 Thread Nathan Woodrow
58 PM, Barry Rowlingson < b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Nathan Woodrow > wrote: > > Hi All, > > > After that a timer fires at the interval and saves the layer for you. I > > thought a per-layer auto save feature is better then

Re: [Qgis-developer] 1.7.1 Branch created

2011-09-18 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Tim, Would we be able to get someone to have a look at and apply any patches that are still pending on http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/issues There are a few ready to be merged into master and backported to 1.7.1. Mainly: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4290 http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4283 h

[Qgis-developer] Visualizing QGIS code activity between 1.6 and 1.7

2011-09-23 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi all, I made another one of those videos showing the QGIS version control history. This one shows all the changes between release 1.6 and 1.7. The big influx of activity in November is pretty interesting. Video at http://woostuff.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/visualizing-qgis-code-activity-between

Re: [Qgis-developer] Polishing QGIS

2011-09-25 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I have to echo Alisters concerns with moving to a single window system. MapInfo (and Arc as far as I know) currently use a single window system and it's a pain if you do have multiple monitors and want to use them. In my ideal QGIS world we could have a single window system (using tabs to separa

Re: [Qgis-developer] Polishing QGIS

2011-09-26 Thread Nathan Woodrow
FYI a good site for doing UI mockup is http://builds.balsamiq.com/b/mockups-web-demo/ - Nathan On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Ramon Andiñach wrote: > > On 26/09/2011, at 16:56 , Tim Sutton wrote: > > > Hi All > > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Ramon Andiñach > wrote: > >> I also would

Re: [Qgis-developer] Module piping GUI [Was: analytical workflow]

2011-09-29 Thread Nathan Woodrow
> > >But AFAIK this has to be implemented in Python, not in Qt. Is there an > >equivalent framework for Python? Paolo, You can access all the Qt stuff in Python via PyQt. I'm pretty sure this is what Martin is talking about: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qgraphicsvi

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-community-team] New QGIS logo

2011-10-03 Thread Nathan Woodrow
website that work with the new logo. I was thinking about posting a blog post about a logo comp and see if we can get some more funds. Thoughts? - Nathan On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Il 01/09/2011 23:17, Nathan Woodrow ha scritto: > > Is anyone willing to p

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-community-team] New QGIS logo

2011-10-04 Thread Nathan Woodrow
eally good stuff on there. I think we could get good designer coverage then. - Nathan On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Anita Graser wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Tim Sutton wrote: > >> Hi >> >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Nathan Woodrow &

[Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 1.6 project causing 1.7 to crash

2011-10-11 Thread Nathan Woodrow
reduce the total layers count in the XML file, > right? Is the XML project file structure robust enough to allow me to > manually 'hack' the file like this? > > Thanks again! > Cheers > Ross > > > > On 11 October 2011 14:45, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > >> Ve

[Qgis-developer] Offline editing not working on some layer types.

2011-10-13 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi All, I was trying to use the offline editing plugin for some field work but it doesn't seem to want to convert the layers to offline for me. The layers are all MapInfo .TAB files when running convert to offline the plugin sits for a while then goes back to the map canvas. This is the output i

[Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] Offline editing not working on some layer types.

2011-10-13 Thread Nathan Woodrow
ller, > nothing is showing up. > > Noli > > On 10/14/11, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I was trying to use the offline editing plugin for some field work but it > > doesn't seem to want to convert the layers to offline for me. > > > >

Re: [Qgis-developer] Expression based labeling

2011-10-27 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Thanks Andreas. Glad you like it. >> Question 1: the output preview of the label does not seem to work when I use a field - is there something I need to >>do to enable it? I would expect it to pull in the first record or some random record to retrieve values? Ah yes there seems to be a bug with g

Re: [Qgis-developer] Expression based labeling

2011-10-27 Thread Nathan Woodrow
: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Nathan Woodrow > wrote: > > Thanks Andreas. Glad you like it. > >>> Question 1: the output preview of the label does not seem to work when > I > >>> use a field - is there something I need to >>do to enable it? I

Re: [Qgis-developer] Expression based labeling

2011-10-27 Thread Nathan Woodrow
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Martin Dobias wrote: > The question is whether it ever makes sense to disable multiline > labels. Therefore for the simplicity of the GUI I would suggest to > remove the option completely and always keep it on... unless there is > a case when multiline labels shou

Re: [Qgis-developer] API proposal: fetching of features

2011-10-28 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Good thinking Martin, QgsFeatureRequest request; request.setExpression( "type = 5 and $area > 100" ); request.setLimit(10) layer->select( request ); I really like this API style. We can add methods to QgsFeatureRequest for better access without busting the select API, which is good imo. Could e

Re: [Qgis-developer] Expression based labeling

2011-10-28 Thread Nathan Woodrow
> > the direction symbol is important for us. We use it to label the direction > of waste-water pipes. We use them only in single-line labels though. Would it be an OK solution to add the > to the last line and the < to the first line. eg Line 1 Line 2 > or < Line 1 Line 2 At the moment this

Re: [Qgis-developer] expression builder?

2011-10-30 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Indeed. It's on my TODO list. I would like to get a rock solid version in one place (labeling) first before I start rolling it out all over the app. There is a few bugs that I found after the merge that are in a pending pull request. I'll get Martin to merge them during the week if he has some

[Qgis-developer] Fwd: QGIS vs uDig expression builder face off

2011-10-30 Thread Nathan Woodrow
FYI this is a email I sent to the Australia OsGeo group this morning. Note: Jody Garnett is from the uDig project. -- Forwarded message -- From: Nathan Woodrow Date: Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:13 AM Subject: QGIS vs uDig expression builder face off To: OSGeo NZ/AU Jody Garnett and

Re: [Qgis-developer] Expression based labeling

2011-10-31 Thread Nathan Woodrow
e labels. > > Thanks again, > Andreas > > On 10/29/2011 08:27 AM, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > >> > >> the direction symbol is important for us. We use it to label the > direction > >> of waste-water pipes. We use them only in single-line labels though. > &g

Re: [Qgis-developer] expression-based labelling: multiline problem

2011-10-31 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Paolo, Did you make sure you you had multiline labels ticked in the advanced tab of the label options. If you grab the latest build it should be enabled by default now as per the pull request of mine Martin just merged. - Nathan On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Hi all

Re: [Qgis-developer] Expression based labeling

2011-11-02 Thread Nathan Woodrow
expression builder in that request. - Nathan On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > OK. If there are no objections from anyone else I'll go ahead and > implement it this way. My HDD with my dev environment died last night so I > have had to migrate to a new HDD and

[Qgis-developer] Rule based labeling ideas

2011-11-03 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi all, I was playing around with some uDig, SLD and MapServer today and how they handle labeling features and I noticed that they do labels per class (per symbol in our case) and I remember seeing that rule based labeling was on the To-Talk-About list for the next hackfest and thought I would thr

[Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] Query a joined layer

2011-11-04 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hey James, I think the problem might be that the query builder, when you press ok, is setting the the layer subset via QgsDataProvider::setSubsetString(string). How setSubSetString works is up to the provider. In your case the provider, that you joined to, doesn't know anything about the other fie

[Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] Query a joined layer

2011-11-04 Thread Nathan Woodrow
> > It works if I use the query builder from the attribute table, and will > select the features that match the query (and highlight them on the > map/attribute table). Yeah this will work because it is at a QGIS level. Not so much a query rather a "find all the items in the big index in the att

Re: [Qgis-developer] Possible GUI Enhancement for canvas Selection Editing

2011-11-07 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Mars, I would interested in what you can come up with. This would be a good feature for QGIS IMO. I had a use case the other day that I needed a user to bulk update lots of land parcels with a string from a drop down, it was quite had to do without using the field calculator. This person was no

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugin metadata in a text file

2011-11-09 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Good idea Martin. I had the a thought the other day that it would be good to be able to list the dependencies of the plugin in there too. This list would have to be hand maintained but the author . The plugin installer would then be able to see before trying to install what the package needs to r

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugin metadata in a text file

2011-11-09 Thread Nathan Woodrow
>>dependencies may be external python modules, other qgis python >>plugins, maybe something more... It would be good to also put a change set list some where, sometimes it's nice to see what has changed between a version of a plugin. The plugin website could read this and then that would flow dow

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugin metadata in a text file

2011-11-09 Thread Nathan Woodrow
PM, Alessandro Pasotti wrote: > 2011/11/9 Nathan Woodrow : > >>>dependencies may be external python modules, other qgis python > >>>plugins, maybe something more... > > It would be good to also put a change set list some where, sometimes it's > > nice to

Re: [Qgis-developer] Plugin metadata in a text file

2011-11-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
conventions so that it makes the plugins consistent. Convention over configuration. - Nathan On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Alessandro Pasotti wrote: > 2011/11/10 Sandro Santilli : > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 05:55:06PM +1000, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > >> Yeah. It would be easi

Re: [Qgis-developer] QT dialog with actions

2011-11-11 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi Patrice, As far as I know you can. Add a button to your form and name it the same as the layer action. Give that a try if that doesn't work I can chase it up more. If this works I'll update my blog post that you commented on too. - Nathan On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Patrice Vetsel wr

Re: [Qgis-developer] Migrate wiki?

2011-11-13 Thread Nathan Woodrow
+1 from me. I'm happy to help clean it up once it's over on hub. - Nathan On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Alexander Bruy wrote: > +1 for migrating wiki. > > 2011/11/13 Paolo Cavallini : > > Hi all. > > Now that we are using redmine also for plugins, can we move our wiki to > > there? I think c

[Qgis-developer] Proposed attribute table UI redesign

2011-11-14 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi all, Today I was looking at some different ways to redesign and optimize the attribute table UI and have come up with a design that I think works well but would like to get some feedback first. I have made two screenshots, showing the old and new dialog at the same size and using the same Qt t

Re: [Qgis-developer] Proposed attribute table UI redesign

2011-11-14 Thread Nathan Woodrow
http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/topobase_-_customizable_forms.bmpfor >> an example. >> >> Jürgen Fischer will be working for us to improve the forms/tables - so >> Nathan, maybe you could team up with Jürgen to improve the tables and >> forms. I would also be

[Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] Proposed attribute table UI redesign

2011-11-14 Thread Nathan Woodrow
>> This is the only change I am not keen on - it feels to inconsistent >> with the rest of the UI for me. Well Tim you know what the _real_ issue is here? The rest of the UI is not consistent with _my_ UI design ;) Nah it's cool I'm happy to nuke that idea and just have a small button. - Natha

Re: [Qgis-developer] More git troubles ...

2011-11-14 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Something seems up with using the https:// version. Try using git://github.com/qgis/Quantum-GIS.git instead. This works on my end - Nathan On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Andreas Neumann wrote: > git clone > https://github.com/qgis/**Quantum-GIS.git

Re: [Qgis-developer] bugs instructions

2011-11-15 Thread Nathan Woodrow
+1 from me. On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Hi all. > I think the link "Bugs" in our home page should not land directly on > Redmine, but on one page explaining: > - how to open a ticket (first replicating it, then checking if it's new, > then registering @ osgeo, etc.)

[Qgis-developer] QIGS GPL -> LGPL - Tigers, Lions and Bears Oh My!

2011-11-16 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I would like, if I may, raise the topic of the current licensing of QGIS. One thing I have been thinking about lately is if we should change the licence from GPL to LGPL. I understand the motivation to use GPL at the start, as Qt was only GPL but now that it is LPGL that is no longer an issue.

Re: [Qgis-developer] field calculator

2011-11-17 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi Paolo, Glad the users are happy with new labeling stuff and expression builder. I'm currently playing around with a few field calculator redesigns, mainly how I can add the new expression builder widget in there. I have started but don't have a ETA at the moment as I have a few other things o

Re: [Qgis-developer] Why is scrolling in the attribute table so slow?

2011-11-24 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Andreas, If your using PostGIS there seems to be some open/close connection bug. If you look at the debug log for QGIS while you click, scroll or do anything in a PostGIS backed datasource you will see a lot of database requests. I haven't filed a bug yet but I will if you can confirm the same o

[Qgis-developer] Re: AW: [Qgis-user] Re: Mapbooks with Easyprint

2011-11-25 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Ziegler, Just thought I would let you know. I added a method a while ago that will hopefully help making map books using composer layouts a bit easier. I added a composer item id which you can assign in the UI and then reference in the code. The ID/Name is just a string so you can use any conve

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-community-team] New QGIS logo

2011-11-25 Thread Nathan Woodrow
hould try to get as many designers interested as possible. > > Anita > > > >> I think we could get good designer coverage then. >> >> - Nathan >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Anita Graser wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >

Re: [Qgis-developer] Web site usability of hub.qgis.org

2011-11-27 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi Arunmozhi, Yeah the font size is a bit small, there is a ticket open for this and it should be fixed soon. The default size is 11px. I have had a play with different sizes and found 14px to be a good size. Regarding 2) this is just a fall over from when we migrated from mediawiki to redmine,

Re: [Qgis-developer] Why is scrolling in the attribute table so slow?

2011-12-01 Thread Nathan Woodrow
+1 to local cache as Select at ID would just confuse people. - Nathan On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Andreas Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Fyi - Jürgen just included an option in the Postgis Table Connection > dialogue allowing to cache a Postgis table or view locally. There is a > separate column

[Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] Re: ecw problems

2011-12-02 Thread Nathan Woodrow
It seems we are allowed to ship the ecw read-only SDK on windows: "For avoidance of doubt, this Agreement does not permit You to (a) use the ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK Desktop Read-Only to create or distribute Server Applications or SDKs; (b) use the ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK Desktop Read-Only to create Libraries;

Re: [Qgis-developer] (First?) API break

2011-12-08 Thread Nathan Woodrow
It would be a good thing IMO to report API changes with every build if we can. I asked a question on Stackoverflow.com about how to do this a while ago. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6596364/tracking-c-lib-public-api-changes - Nathan On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:

Re: [Qgis-developer] Geospatial Developer Needed

2011-12-12 Thread Nathan Woodrow
+1 to a job listing page on qgis.org On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Tim Sutton wrote: > Hi Jeremy > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Jeremy Palmer > wrote: > > Hi all, and sorry for any cross-posting, > > > > Want to be part of New Zealand government's open data initiative and > really make

Re: [Qgis-developer] bug stats

2011-12-17 Thread Nathan Woodrow
What searching problems do you have Paolo? Can we fix it if Redmine is open source? - Nathan On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Il 17/12/2011 09:18, Alexander Bruy ha scritto: > > > Maybe as starting point we can create more strict rules for tickets? [0] > > this could he

Re: [Qgis-developer] Quality assurance

2011-12-19 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I guess the next thing to do would be to work out some list of testers, what they are testing and a checklist that can be used to check against each build/release. The wiki would be a good place to list the testers and the what area is being tested, I'm not sure that the checklist of "it works or

Re: [Qgis-developer] absolut vs relative paths in qgs files

2011-12-19 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I think it's important to have both, they both have use cases IMO it would be good to be able to tell the project how to store each layer, relative or absolute. Use case: say I have a drive with my base maps and a folder structure on a different drive for projects, the base maps server is fixed b

[Qgis-developer] Built-in attribute form validation

2011-12-20 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi all, I have been working on this idea over the last couple days which I think would be cool/handy to have in QGIS and I would be interested to get some feedback with what people think. The general idea is to add a form of field validation to the built-in attribute forms. The use case for this

Re: [Qgis-developer] Built-in attribute form validation

2011-12-20 Thread Nathan Woodrow
- max length (for strings) > - contains regex/string (for strings) > Multiple rules could be applied to any field in the fields tab of the > layer properties. For special cases you would still need a custom Ui, > though. > > just my two cents > > Bernhard > > > > Am

Re: [Qgis-developer] blocking tickets

2011-12-23 Thread Nathan Woodrow
+1. Is there a easy way to query blocking issues. I think adding this would help to some extent: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4067 - Nathan On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Hi all. > I think we should now take blocking tickets more seriously: a new version > should be >

[Qgis-developer] Syntax highlighting in expression builder dialog

2011-12-29 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi all, I'm currently working on adding some basic syntax highlighting to the expression builder that I added to QGIS a couple of months ago in order to make it a bit more user friendly. The dialog is used for the new labeling expression dialog and the WFS filtering, with it planned to be used in

Re: [Qgis-developer] Adding expressions support for layer's actions

2012-01-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Tim you read my mind :) Something else which I have thought of, which expands on Tims idea, is to be able to have the action show up as it's own toolbar button. - Nathan On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Tim Sutton wrote: > Also if you are thinking about actions, it would be nice to have a new

[Qgis-developer] Fwd: [Live-demo] Translation tools - Pootle

2012-01-10 Thread Nathan Woodrow
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Alex Mandel Date: Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:29 PM Subject: [Live-demo] Translation tools - Pootle To: "live-d...@lists.osgeo.org" This came up on another OSGeo list and I thought it might be good for us to look at. It's a web tool for managing tra

Re: [Qgis-developer] Benchmarking QgsExpression against V8

2012-01-11 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I personally would like to see Python exposed for use with expressions first, before looking at adding javascript style support. I also don't think it makes much sense to try to use V8 when Qt already comes with a javascript interpreter that can handle Qt objects. - Nathan On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 a

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