[QGIS-Developer] startup.py not working outside %APPDATA%\QGIS\QGIS3

2020-02-17 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hi QGIS-devs, It looks like QGIS3 (tested with 3.10.2) does not make use of a startup.py if it is saved outside %APPDATA%\QGIS\QGIS3 (OS: Windows 10). I opened QGIS with a custom "--profiles-path" which works fine as QGIS creates this profiles folder. But if you put a startup.py into this folder

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS 3.10.2 start issue

2020-02-17 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hi Martin, did you use the standalone installer or the OSGEO4W-Installer? You can have a look if in your C:\Program Files\QGIS_3_10_2_Coruna\bin folder if there exists a qgis.bat.tmpl file as template for the qgis.bat. If so you can copy the file and rename it to qgis.bat. If not you can create

[QGIS-Developer] saving username in QGIS projectfile for tracking changes

2019-12-20 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hi QGIS-Devs, I set up a cronjob to track changes in one QGIS projectfile which is used as template for a bunch of users. Apart from knowing which parts of the project file changed it would be nice to know who saved these changes. So i inserted the following snippet in the "writeProjectFile"-

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS Onboarding Day?

2019-12-09 Thread Thomas Baumann
g short(er) instruction videos > would me more efficient. > > Thanks for your input, hoping to see you at the hackfest! > Raymond > > > > > On 06-12-2019 14:42, Thomas Baumann wrote: > > Hi Raymond, > > I think especially getting QtCreator or Vi

Re: [QGIS-Developer] QGIS Onboarding Day?

2019-12-06 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hi Raymond, I think especially getting QtCreator or Visual Studio under Windows OS up and running would be a good topic if the are windows users as newbies at your hackfest. On Linux and Windows I got the debug setup with QtCreator running with the help of our paid QGIS support but the setup on

Re: [QGIS-Developer] BWTA2017 grid support in QGIS >= 3.10

2019-12-03 Thread Thomas Baumann
@Even Rounault: thanks for this info. Then I guess we'll see the BWTA2017 support in 3.10.3 in the mid of january... keeping fingers crossed :-) Am Di., 3. Dez. 2019 um 15:06 Uhr schrieb Even Rouault < even.roua...@spatialys.com>: > > @Jürgen Fischer: is there a change that you could

[QGIS-Developer] BWTA2017 grid support in QGIS >= 3.10

2019-12-03 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hello QGIS-devs, in QGIS2 and QGIS-3 versions with proj<6 there was a support for the BWTA2017.gsb-gridfile which is needed in the state Baden-Württemberg ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg ) in southwest germany to transform between the former official crs EPSG31467 and the

[QGIS-Developer] crssync.exe crash during QGIS build

2019-11-25 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hi Devs, I managed to build QGIS under linux and windows with QTCreator. What still doesn't work is building QGIS with visual developer. I followed instructions like https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/INSTALL#L423 https://www.shaeffer.co/compiling-qgis-with-visual-studio/

[QGIS-Developer] how to make sure QGIS3 is always started by calling qgis.bat and not qgis.exe?

2019-05-06 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hello QGIS-Devs, I recently asked a question on gis.stackexchange about how to make sure that QGIS3 is always started by calling the qgis.bat file: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/321108/check-whether-qgis3-was-started-by-qgis-bat-or-qgis-exe ( The reason why I want to make sure that

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Crashes on closing QGIS

2019-04-11 Thread Thomas Baumann
Fischer wrote: > >> Hi Thomas, >> >> On Wed, 10. Apr 2019 at 23:04:50 +0200, Thomas Baumann wrote: >> > proj_lpz_dist : >> > QgsCoordinateTransform::transformPolygon : >> >> > Does someone know what "proj_lpz_dist" stands for? &g

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Crashes on closing QGIS

2019-04-10 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hi there, @Alessandro Pasotti; thanks for pointing out that there are several persons affected by bugs which cause QGIS3 to crash on exit. I know that my stacktrace is different from Andreas' one. when I said "same here" I was refering to Andreas' statement "We always have crashes on closing

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Crashes on closing QGIS

2019-04-10 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hi there, same situation here: QGIS 3.6 crashed several times when trying to close it. regards, Thomas PS: attached is one crash report: h2. User Feedback QGIS Crashed when I tried to close QGIS h2. Report Details *Crash ID*: 62f1fcd2045780cb9f127836e6b579b8665f3e63 *Stack Trace*

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Red '__MACOSX' in plugin layer list

2019-03-12 Thread Thomas Baumann
about this topic in a second. regards, Thomas Am Di., 12. März 2019 um 10:23 Uhr schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde < rdmaili...@duif.net>: > On 12/03/2019 09.21, Thomas Baumann wrote: > > > In order to cause less traffic and have a better performance it would be > > much

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Red '__MACOSX' in plugin layer list

2019-03-12 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hi Paolo, i wrote a python script to check the qgis 2.18 repository and found 28 plugins which contain a __macosx folder: AzimuthDistanceCalculator.1.1.2.zip GeoHealth.1.0.1.zip irods_qgis.3.2.zip QgisGeoJSONExportPlugin.0.2.0.zip vTool.0.2.zip GridZoneGenerator.1.3.zip

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Red '__MACOSX' in plugin layer list

2019-03-11 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hi, I have had this __MACOSX folder in the plugin for several times in the past. It came from plugin zip files which contained this folder. It seems that this (in MacOS hidden) folder gets included in the zipfile when you use the MacOS Finder to zip folders:

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Common PyQGIS functions for QGIS 3

2019-02-20 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hi Nyall, thanks for your feedback. You are right that some of my examples were not ideal to explain what I meant, so I try to explain it a bit better this time ;-) Some of the following pyqgis-examples may be outdated as things can be done easier in qgis3 now but they should just be an example

[QGIS-Developer] Common PyQGIS functions for QGIS 3

2019-02-20 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hi qgis-devs, I recently updated 15 QGIS-plugins to be QGIS3-ready. Most of them were self written (in house) plugins but four of them were also plugins from the official repository which were written by someone else. I noticed that there are severals tasks that have many plugins in common like:

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Plugin idea for Editing multiple layers

2019-02-16 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hello Alexandre, for editing/selecting multiple layers I have used the QAD Plugin before. For just selecting features from multiple layers there is the MultipleLayer Selection-plugin: https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/MultipleLayerSelection/ I think such a tool is indeed very useful. Regards,

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Find unmaintained plugins

2019-02-04 Thread Thomas Baumann
Could you please start filling up a ticket on > https://issues.qgis.org/issues > so we can define specs resulting from this thread and start implementing > it? > Cheers. > > On 01/02/19 22:40, Thomas Baumann wrote: > > Hi Paolo, > > > > sounds like a good idea to

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Find unmaintained plugins

2019-02-04 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hi, I can understand concerns about not wanting to discourage maintainers. But at the same time you have to see that buggy unmaintained plugins can cause a lot of frustration to users. I have made the experience that problems caused by such plugins are also actually very bad for the reputation of

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Find unmaintained plugins

2019-02-01 Thread Thomas Baumann
exception of a major release i.e. 2 to 3. > > Regards, > Calvin > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 4:41 PM Thomas Baumann > wrote: > >> Hi Paolo, >> >> sounds like a good idea to send a reminder once a year to the maintainer >> and mark plugins as unmaintained if

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Find unmaintained plugins

2019-02-01 Thread Thomas Baumann
01/02/19 13:53, Thomas Baumann wrote: > > > I made the experience that there are QGIS-plugins which are not > > maintained anymore. > > Example: > > > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-Developer-Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing-plugin-deprecated-td5366686.html &g

[QGIS-Developer] Find unmaintained plugins

2019-02-01 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hello qgis-devs, I made the experience that there are QGIS-plugins which are not maintained anymore. Example: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-Developer-Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing-plugin-deprecated-td5366686.html Recently I asked some maintainers if they have plans to update their

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Ribbon-like UI for QGIS

2018-09-13 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hi, I think you mean Kadas-Albireo: https://github.com/sourcepole/kadas-albireo greetings, Thomas Am Do., 13. Sep. 2018 um 13:04 Uhr schrieb Tim Sutton : > Hi Idan > > Sourcepole already did a very nice ribbon implementation for QGIS for > their fork of QGIS for the Swiss military. It was on

Re: [QGIS-Developer] reload attribute table does not work for attribute changed by dataProvider

2018-06-14 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hello, isnt it "QgsEditError" instead of "QgsEditException"? regards, Thomas Am Do., 14. Juni 2018 um 03:26 Uhr schrieb Zhang Qun : > Hi Matthias > > I follow the steps in the link you posted and get the following errors > when trying to import > > ImportError: cannot import name

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

2018-06-06 Thread Thomas Baumann
is available at https://github.com/rdbath/RectOvalDigitPlugin/ as version 1.1.3. Thomas Am Mi., 6. Juni 2018 um 10:48 Uhr schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde < rdmaili...@duif.net>: > On 2018-06-06 10:34, Thomas Baumann wrote: > > Am Di., 5. Juni 2018 um 19:08 Uhr schrieb

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

2018-06-06 Thread Thomas Baumann
a message in its description (in Plugin Manager) inviting potential > users to migrate to the alternatives. > > Regards, > Harrissou > > Regards >> >> Loïc >> >> >> On 06.06.2018 10:48, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: >> > On 2018-06-06 10:34, T

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

2018-06-06 Thread Thomas Baumann
Am Di., 5. Juni 2018 um 19:08 Uhr schrieb Loïc Bartoletti < lbartole...@tuxfamily.org>: > Hi, > > I forked it some years ago since it wasn't maintained, see > https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/CADDigitize/ > > FYI, it's integrated into QGIS 3. > > Regards > > Loïc > Hi, good to know that there

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

2018-06-05 Thread Thomas Baumann
Am Di., 5. Juni 2018 um 14:29 Uhr schrieb Matthias Kuhn : > > > On 06/05/2018 02:12 PM, Nyall Dawson wrote: > > On 5 June 2018 at 21:51, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > >> I have never used the plugin but repeatedly seen its name mentioned, so > >> I assume it's widely used? > >> > >> In this case, it

[QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

2018-06-05 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hello, the Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin ( https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/rectovalDigit ) has an issue that causes QGIS to slow down and get unstable: https://github.com/vinayan/RectOvalDigitPlugin/issues/6 I sent a pullrequest with a fix for the problem (