[Qgis-user] error running processing algorithm in Python action

2019-11-01 Thread McDonaldR
Hi List I have a Python action that executes some SQL on selected features. It works perfectly in my QGIS project. If someone else opens the QGIS project they get an error from the action. We both have the same connection to the database with the same name and with the same permissions on

Re: [Qgis-user] Updating multiple parent/child records simultaneously

2019-10-02 Thread McDonaldR
Hi list, I've got a project set up in QGIS 3.4.x with a parent polygon layer and a child attribute layer. Each site polygon represents a piece of land and can have multiple tasks associated with it (grass cutting, weeding, pruning, etc.). Sites can be made up of multiple polygons. With

[Qgis-user] FOSS4G UK 2019 tickets NOW AVIALABLE

2019-07-15 Thread McDonaldR
General Admission tickets for FOSS4G UK 2019 in Edinburgh are now available at the link below https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2019/tickets.html All made possible by OSGeo:UK, Skyscanner, thinkWhere, Astun Technology, Ordnance Survey, 2ndQuadrant, esri UK, Registers of Scotland, Tilhill Forestry,

Re: [Qgis-user] finding the radius of a curve

2019-04-22 Thread McDonaldR
As your data is in PostGIS and assuming that they are arcs (curved lines part of a circle) you could use some geometry and spatial SQL functions to calculate the radius of any curve knowing the coordinates of the end points of the curve. To quote the pseudo code on the linked page: “To

[Qgis-user] SVG markers with data defined override

2018-11-22 Thread McDonaldR
Hi List, I've been asked to help create a QGIS project for creating layouts of temporary road signage. I have a folder of SVG files and a layer of points with the appropriate SVG file name against each point. Using the data defined override I can display the correct sign for each point on the

[Qgis-user] issue - Zoom to extents of PostGIS layer

2018-09-28 Thread McDonaldR
Hi List, I have a 2.18.22 project with a PostGIS layer of points. The layer has a spatial index. I edit the layer in QGIS and add points. The points I am capturing tend to be clustered in distinct areas. I save edits and want to zoom to full extent of the layer. The map zooms to the

[Qgis-user] Displaying a photo with the attachment widget in 3.0

2018-03-01 Thread McDonaldR
Hey folks, Anyone know how the new Attachment Widget works to display a photo with either a file path or URL? In 2.18 the web view widget displayed the photo perfectly but in 3.0 only the file path is displayed and not the image. Thoughts? Thanks in advance Ross Ross McDonald | GIS Data

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 3 initial settings from QGIS 2

2018-02-28 Thread McDonaldR
Hello David QGIS3 writes a new configuration into a .qgis3 folder in your user profile / home directory so all your old settings are in the old .qgis2 folder. You might be able to copy contents from one to the other but I'm not sure of the consequences. Proceed with caution :-) Ross Ross

Re: [Qgis-user] [QGIS-Developer] Data defined @symbol_color outlines

2018-02-23 Thread McDonaldR
Thanks for letting me know, Nyall All the best with the 3.0 release today! Ross -Original Message- From: Nyall Dawson [mailto:nyall.daw...@gmail.com] Sent: 22 February 2018 23:09 To: McDonaldR Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org; qgis-develo...@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [QGIS-Developer

[Qgis-user] Data defined @symbol_color outlines

2018-02-21 Thread McDonaldR
Hi List This issue (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/15132) refers to using the @symbol_color function to make the outline of graduated/categorised features the same colour as the fill. There is a fix by Nyall from over a year ago but I wonder if there has been a regression? I am using both

Re: [Qgis-user] Button order on Add Data dialogues

2017-12-20 Thread McDonaldR
Thanks Alessandro Ticket created https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17728 Ross From: Alessandro Pasotti [mailto:apaso...@gmail.com] Sent: 20 December 2017 12:08 To: McDonaldR Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Button order on Add Data dialogues Hi, in QGIS 3 the source select

[Qgis-user] Button order on Add Data dialogues

2017-12-19 Thread McDonaldR
Hi List, I'm running QGIS 2.18.12 and latest 2.99 on Windows 7. I have a question about the order of the buttons in the dialogue boxes on the Manage Layers toolbar. Maybe it's my OCD and maybe others have a similar issue... [cid:image001.png@01D378E8.53205510] * The Add Spatialite

[Qgis-user] 7th QGIS UK SCottish user group - live streaming link

2017-11-14 Thread McDonaldR
Hi List Here is the link to the live stream of the QGIS UK user group meeting in Edinburgh on Thursday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWfg_ptdd7w Videos of the individual talks will be available after the event. Supported and sponsored by thinkWhere, Ordnance Survey, Cawdor Forestry, EDINA

[Qgis-user] QGIS Print Composer - export world file with image

2017-08-31 Thread McDonaldR
Hi List I have a composer layout I'd like to export with a world file. Under Export Settings in Composer I check the option to save world file and export an image but I don't get any accompanying file regardless of the output format. I am running QGIS 2.18.12 on Windows 7 64bit. I see this

Re: [Qgis-user] Updating a field set with default global variable on edit

2017-08-22 Thread McDonaldR
the username and password-part only . Mvh. / Best regards Casper Bertelsen On 22/08/2017 15:36, McDonaldR wrote: Thanks Karl-Magnus We use triggers in the database already and they work perfectly but if we want to record the specific user creating and editing features then we'd have to create separate

Re: [Qgis-user] Updating a field set with default global variable on edit

2017-08-22 Thread McDonaldR
in the comments this doesn't work on feature "update". If this were possible then it would meet all our needs. Maybe something that could be funded? Ross From: Karl Magnus Jönsson [mailto:karl-magnus.jons...@kristianstad.se] Sent: 22 August 2017 12:34 To: McDonaldR; qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org S

[Qgis-user] Updating a field set with default global variable on edit

2017-08-22 Thread McDonaldR
Hi List, Anyone know how to update a field that has a global variable set as the default value when records are edited (geometry and/or attributes)? We have a QGIS project with a PostGIS layer loaded and configured with look-ups and relations so the users can update all the relevant fields.

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 2.18.8 - Crash dump accessing PostGIS layers via browser

2017-05-24 Thread McDonaldR
I can confirm this using Windows 7 x64 and 2.18.8 Bug reported - https://issues.qgis.org/issues/16612 - and closed already as new fix is in place and will be coming in new build 2.18.9 shortly. Suggestion is to downgrade to 2.18.7 or use the Add PostGIS Layer button. Ross From: Qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] mouse position display in different units

2016-10-19 Thread McDonaldR
versions you can change this in Project properties, General, Coordinate display. Håvard On 17. okt. 2016 12:43, McDonaldR wrote: > Hello list > > > > I have user with a project with a number of layers (both shapefile and > PostGIS). Project CRS is EPSG:27700 and layer CRS is EPS

[Qgis-user] mouse position display in different units

2016-10-17 Thread McDonaldR
Hello list I have user with a project with a number of layers (both shapefile and PostGIS). Project CRS is EPSG:27700 and layer CRS is EPSG:27700 (British National Grid). Normally, the mouse position box in the bottom panel shows coordinates in metres (easting and northing) but for some

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS project background colour not appearing in print composer?

2016-09-21 Thread McDonaldR
Hi Chris If I set a background colour on the map canvas in 2.16.2 (through file > project properties) and then create a new composter and add a map frame the colour is there in the background. What version of QGIS are you using? You shouldn't have to do anything. Only thing I can think of

Re: [Qgis-user] Problems with adding WFS layers

2016-08-22 Thread McDonaldR
Hi Chris, I know we had to change fields called "location" and "name" to something else ("location_desc" and "xx_name") when loading data into PostgreSQL in our thirdparty web GIS system. This was then read by Geoserver and it complained about the reserved words. I'm not sure what version of

Re: [Qgis-user] drawing transport networks sharing lines

2016-08-19 Thread McDonaldR
Here’s another answer – illustrated this time: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/140685/representing-overlapping-polylines-in-qgis?noredirect=1=1 and with some code to help automate it. Ross From: Qgis-user [mailto:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of McDonaldR Sent: 19 August

Re: [Qgis-user] drawing transport networks sharing lines

2016-08-19 Thread McDonaldR
You could try adjusting the X and/or Y offset for each tube line although it doesn’t draw them exactly parallel. In my example my line width is 2 units and I have duplicated the lines and offset one layer 1 unit and the other -1 unit See a similar question on stackexchange:

Re: [Qgis-user] Bug in GDAL 2.1.0 in QGIS 2.14.5

2016-08-19 Thread McDonaldR
@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Bug in GDAL 2.1.0 in QGIS 2.14.5 Hi Ross, On Wed, 17. Aug 2016 at 10:46:23 +, McDonaldR wrote: > One of the users upgraded to 2.14.5 and got an upgrade of GDAL/ogr2ogr > to version 2.1.0 and his batch files stopped working. > There is a bug in 2.1.0 that

[Qgis-user] Bug in GDAL 2.1.0 in QGIS 2.14.5

2016-08-17 Thread McDonaldR
Hi List We have a number of users here with QGIS 2.14.3 installed who use the bundled GDAL/ogr2ogr (v2.0.2) to import CSV files using batch files to their working schema in a PostGIS database. One of the users upgraded to 2.14.5 and got an upgrade of GDAL/ogr2ogr to version 2.1.0 and his

Re: [Qgis-user] pgRoutingLayer plugin missing ConnectionManager

2016-08-15 Thread McDonaldR
: nag...@georepublic.de [mailto:nag...@georepublic.de] On Behalf Of Ko Nagase Sent: 03 August 2016 00:15 To: McDonaldR; qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] pgRoutingLayer plugin missing ConnectionManager Hi Ross, I tried to install pgRoutingLayer on my following desktop environment

[Qgis-user] pgRoutingLayer plugin missing ConnectionManager

2016-08-02 Thread McDonaldR
I've just tried to install the new version of the pgRoutingLayer plugin and get the following error: The plugin is broken. Python said: 'module' object has no attribute 'ConnectionManager' Enabling the plugin in QGIS returns: Couldn't load plugin pgRoutingLayer due to an error when calling its

[Qgis-user] FOSS4G UK, 14-16 June 2016, Southampton, UK

2016-04-12 Thread McDonaldR
While not strictly a QGIS issue I am sure people will be interested to know that early bird tickets for FOSS4G UK go on sale tomorrow morning. The conference/unconference/workshops/tutorials/hackathon/codesprint and party will happen at the Ordnance Survey offices in Southampton, UK from 14th

Re: [Qgis-user] Plugin processing problem

2016-03-19 Thread McDonaldR
ersion=2.13 C:\Users\mcdonaldr\.qgis2\python\plugins\processing\metadata.txt Plugin from repo > [general] > name=Processing > description=Spatial data processing framework for QGIS > about=Spatial data processing framework for QGIS > category=Analysis > version=2.12.2 > qgisMin

Re: [Qgis-user] Plugin processing problem

2016-03-19 Thread McDonaldR
=2.12.99 qgisMinimumVersion=2.13 C:\Users\mcdonaldr\.qgis2\python\plugins Gazetteersearch pgRoutingLayer processing processing metadata.txt has the following: [general] name=Processing description=Spatial data processing framework for QGIS about=Spatial data processing framework for QGIS category

[Qgis-user] Plugin processing problem

2016-03-19 Thread McDonaldR
Hello List Every time I open QGIS Essen I get an error message telling me that the Plugin processing will be disabled because it crashed QGIS during the last startup. Please report an issue and re-enable the plugin when the problem has been resolved. The processing plugin is not enabled. I

Re: [Qgis-user] Plugin processing problem

2016-03-19 Thread McDonaldR
. QGIS starts just fine without the error message using the core processing plugin. So, is there something left over in my registry that’s causing the problem? Where do I start looking? Thanks Ross From: Nathan Woodrow [mailto:madman...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 March 2016 13:18 To: McDonaldR Cc: Luigi

Re: [Qgis-user] Freezing in editing mode

2016-03-19 Thread McDonaldR
Hello, We were having the same problems and moved quickly from Pisa (2.10) to Essen (2.14). We also recreated our problem project from scratch in Essen and the problem disappeared. The fix to improve the indexing on starting editing definitely improves things. In our problem project the

Re: [Qgis-user] Plugin processing problem

2016-03-19 Thread McDonaldR
/qgis/. Active Theme Name: default Active Theme Path: C:/Users/mcdonaldr/.qgis2///themes\default\icons/ Default Theme Path: :/images/themes/default/ SVG Search Paths: \\dcnasfs\gis\QGIS\Styles\svg C:/OSGeo4W/apps/qgis/./svg/ C:/Users/mcdonaldr/.qgis2//svg/ User DB Path: C:/OSGeo4W/apps/qgis

Re: [Qgis-user] Plugin processing problem

2016-03-18 Thread McDonaldR
) QSettings().remove('/PythonPlugins/watchDog/processing') Matthias On 03/17/2016 02:50 PM, Matthias Kuhn wrote: Hi Ross, can you run import QSettings() QSettings().remove('/Plugins/watchDog/processing') in the python console and report back if this fixes the issue? Matthias On 03/17/2016 12:22 PM, Mc

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 2.12.3 not available for Ubuntu 14.04?

2016-02-01 Thread McDonaldR
Hi Filipe I think you need to update your sources.list to point at http://qgis.org/ubuntugis-nightly-release You might also need to update your keyring - http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu Regards Ross From: Qgis-user

[Qgis-user] Custom form checkbox widget

2016-01-13 Thread McDonaldR
Hi List I have a table in PostGIS with a Boolean field which allows for TRUE/FALSE, t/f, true/false, y/n, yes/no, on/off, 1/0 values. I have a custom form in QGIS for that table and the edit widget for that field is set to checkbox. In the checkbox widget settings there are two options for

Re: [Qgis-user] Custom form checkbox widget

2016-01-13 Thread McDonaldR
://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/DataDrivenInputMask/ Am 13.01.2016 um 15:01 schrieb McDonaldR: > Hi List > > I have a table in PostGIS with a Boolean field which allows for > TRUE/FALSE, t/f, true/false, y/n, yes/no, on/off, 1/0 values. > > I have a custom form in QGIS for that table a

Re: [Qgis-user] Smoothing elevation data?

2016-01-12 Thread McDonaldR
Hi Sebastian If you open the raster layer properties you can change the resampling method on the Style tab from nearest neighbour / nearest neighbour to bilinear / average. That should smooth out the image for you. Cheers Ross From: Qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] Smoothing elevation data?

2016-01-12 Thread McDonaldR
Sebastian, You could also add more classes to your colour ramp (10 instead of 5). You could change the colour interpretation method from discrete to linear which would also smooth things out. Try create a hill-shaded image from your elevation layer (using Raster > Analysis > DEM Terrain

[Qgis-user] Errors downloading 2.8.5-1

2015-12-22 Thread McDonaldR
Hi List, Is anyone else having issues trying to download the latest LTR release? I am trying to get this: http://qgis.org/downloads/QGIS-OSGeo4W-2.8.5-1-Setup-x86.exe but the downloads are either fail to download or are corrupted when I try to run the installer. Thanks Ross Ross McDonald |

Re: [Qgis-user] how to get rid of points and only show labels?

2015-12-08 Thread McDonaldR
Hi Bob, Burghardt You have to change the symbol style to "rule based" and then there is the option to turn off the symbol for the point. The option is not available when using a point styled with "single symbol" Regards Ross -Original Message- From: Qgis-user

[Qgis-user] QGIS user group - Edinburgh - 16/11

2015-10-22 Thread McDonaldR
Tickets are now available for the QGIS user group meeting in Edinburgh on 16th November

[Qgis-user] QGIS uses estimated extent of PostGIS layers

2015-09-04 Thread McDonaldR
Hello folks I've come across a problem using the geo-processing tools in QGIS and the extents of layers from PostGIS. It seems like QGIS is using an estimated extent for a PostGIS layer which then leads to issues when using geo-processing tools (creating a TIN or Voronoi polygon set, for

Re: [Qgis-user] qgis 2.8 : move overlayed points ?

2015-08-24 Thread McDonaldR
Hello Image93 You could query your layer and group by coordinate to get a count of the number of points with the same location. QGIS can display overlaid points using blending modes (multiply) so that overlaid points appear darker as there are more of them. Or you could use the point

Re: [Qgis-user] Point data to polygon

2015-08-17 Thread McDonaldR
Hello Strumbi You want to do a spatial join. However, you may run into problems if there is more than one point per polygon but it sounds as though there is a one-to-one relationship between them. In QGIS do Vector Data Management Tools Join Attributes By Location Target is the polygon

[Qgis-user] Running QGIS in Citrix - plugin issues

2015-08-07 Thread McDonaldR
Hello list, Maybe some of you can help me out. We're running QGIS 2.8.3 (64bit) in a Citrix XenApp 6.5 environment. I have installed the pgRouting layer plugin and can configure it to use my pgRouting network and I can get as far as clicking the RUN button when I get an error: [Could not

Re: [Qgis-user] Local Government for QGIS

2015-06-12 Thread McDonaldR
Here in the UK there is a growing momentum in the move towards using FOSS/FOSS4G (QGIS / Geoserver / MapServer / PostgreSQL / PostGIS / OpenLayers / Leaflet / etc / etc) in local government (and central government too). This is being driven by a number of factors - open formats/standards vs

Re: [Qgis-user] How I create web gis through Qgis

2015-05-20 Thread McDonaldR
Hello, To create a simple web map embedded in a HTML page have a look at the qgis2leaf or qgis2web plugins. To create a web GIS you’ll need more than just QGIS. Ross From: qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Debajyoti Ghosh Sent: 20 May

Re: [Qgis-user] OTB on win: please check

2015-05-19 Thread McDonaldR
Hi Paolo Running QGIS Wien 2.8.2 on Win 7 32 Testing OTB Vector Data Manipulation - Concatenate Dialogue opens, can select layers (2 x postgis tables) to concatenate, click RUN and process starts and then freezes. OTBxx.exe runs in task manager consuming a significant amount of memory

[Qgis-user] Editing processes broken from 2.6.1 to 2.8.2

2015-05-19 Thread McDonaldR
Hello List I have a process that works perfectly in Brighton 2.6.1 but is broken in Wien 2.8.2. I have two Postgis polygon layers loaded in QGIS - MR and RC. I copy some polygons from Ordnance Survey MasterMap Topography layer and paste into a memory layer. In the memory layer the polygons are

Re: [Qgis-user] Editing processes broken from 2.6.1 to 2.8.2

2015-05-19 Thread McDonaldR
the most current version of the plugin? 2) Is there any differences between the CRS of the layer(s) and/or the project? 3) Which QGIS version are you using on which platform? Bernhard Am 19.05.2015 um 12:42 schrieb McDonaldR: Hello List I have a process that works perfectly in Brighton 2.6.1

[Qgis-user] Uninstalling QGIS standalone using SCCM

2015-05-11 Thread McDonaldR
Hello List I'd like to uninstall QGIS standalone using Microsoft's System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM). We currently push QGIS out to users using SCCM and it installs just fine. However, when coming to uninstalling QGIS, SCCM takes a copy of Uninstall-QGIS.exe, puts it in a temporary

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 2.8 runtime error

2015-03-31 Thread McDonaldR
Hi Leo I had the same error a while back and I posted this to the UK QGIS user group: Anyone getting the following error on the latest update to QGIS via OSGeo4W? The problem is a copy of msvcr90.dll in the C:\OSGeo4W\apps\qgis\bin folder which clashes with the copy in C:\Windows\winsxs\

Re: [Qgis-user] Starting QGIS with pre-configured settings

2015-03-19 Thread McDonaldR
(including PG and WMS connections). And this file can now be copied to the shared drive (or to each laptop). That's just saved me three hours! Cheers Ross From: Saber Razmjooei [mailto:saber.razmjo...@lutraconsulting.co.uk] Sent: 19 March 2015 12:27 To: McDonaldR Subject: RE: [Qgis-user] Starting

[Qgis-user] Starting QGIS with pre-configured settings

2015-03-19 Thread McDonaldR
Hi List I need to run QGIS on a set of laptops (8) for some short internal training sessions for 24 different users. How can I get QGIS to start with some config options (see here http://qgis.tips/tip/10) so that each user has a PostgreSQL connection, a couple of WMS connections and some

Re: [Qgis-user] qgis : how to do Isochrone maps?

2014-12-04 Thread McDonaldR
Hello, You want to look at pgRouting in PostgreSQL and the pgRouting plugin for QGIS. You need to do the following: 1. Read this: http://docs.pgrouting.org/2.0/en/doc/src/tutorial/tutorial.html#tutorial 2. Read the articles here: http://anitagraser.com/?s=pgrouting Hope that points you in

Re: [Qgis-user] Multiple QGIS installs (Windows)

2014-10-13 Thread McDonaldR
Hi Jonathan Yes, you can. You can install the standalone version - it installs into a unique folder under C:\Program Files\ You can install using OSGeo4W and install the latest stable and development releases into OSGeo4W\apps\qgis and qgis-dev However, having said this all installs (I have

Re: [Qgis-user] Help with Ordnance Survey SLD's for OS Mastermap

2014-09-01 Thread McDonaldR
You can grab QGIS styles for OSMM here: https://github.com/mixedbredie/QGIS-styles/tree/master/OSMM and here: https://github.com/QGIS-UK/Styles/tree/master/OSMM The QML and SLDs depend on the schema of the source data (GML, shapefiles) and how they are loaded into the database (Loader!,

Re: [Qgis-user] [QGIS] Problems creating a line in QGIS

2014-07-28 Thread McDonaldR
Hi Nicole, Have you got snapping set on some layers? Could your pointer be snapping to some features on another layer? What version of QGIS are you using? Ross -Original Message- From: qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Nicole

Re: [Qgis-user] Problems with date fields from Postgis + QGIS

2014-06-10 Thread McDonaldR
Hi Jürgen, It works with ae9048a (build 107 from OSGeo4W). A NULL value is correctly updated in the table, as is a valid date. What is odd is, if you set the date field edit widget to LINE EDIT then the field is populated with a NULL by default (or a date if you enter a date string).

Re: [Qgis-user] displaying a layer from SQL

2014-06-02 Thread McDonaldR
Hi Steve Can you create two views in the database from the source tables - one for points and one for polygons? Cheers Ross From: qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Steven Campbell Sent: 02 June 2014 15:18 To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org

[Qgis-user] Categorised Styling of PostGIS layers

2014-05-30 Thread McDonaldR
Morning all, I'm trying to style some flooding probability data. It's in PostGIS and I'm using QGIS master (same issue in 2.0 and 2.2 though). My polygon layer has a probability field with values H, M and L. If I select a categorised style using the probability field I get the expected

Re: [Qgis-user] Categorised Styling of PostGIS layers

2014-05-30 Thread McDonaldR
as the table is smaller. Many thanks Ross From: Alexandre Neto [mailto:senhor.n...@gmail.com] Sent: 30 May 2014 12:01 To: McDonaldR Cc: QGIS User Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Categorised Styling of PostGIS layers Somehow QGIS is not finding any of those 3 values in the features in that extent. Can you

Re: [Qgis-user] Categorised Styling of PostGIS layers

2014-05-30 Thread McDonaldR
Filed as a bug: https://hub.qgis.org/issues/10401 Ross From: Alexandre Neto [mailto:senhor.n...@gmail.com] Sent: 30 May 2014 16:21 To: McDonaldR Cc: Brent Wood; QGIS User Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Categorised Styling of PostGIS layers I have tested myself and I can confirm this behavior

Re: [Qgis-user] displaying values on range slider widget

2014-05-20 Thread McDonaldR
] displaying values on range slider widget Il 20/05/2014 12:57, McDonaldR ha scritto: If my field is a real number then I only have a slider option but I can also set the step to anything I like. However, the widget does not display as a slider but rather as an editable field with stepper

Re: [Qgis-user] Plugin - draw a circle and measure

2014-02-25 Thread McDonaldR
Hi Jonathan I was looking at the same problem a couple of weeks ago and the closest I came was using a buffer round a point where I could specify the radius. I logged a feature request with the developer through github for the Rect Oval Digitising Plugin asking for exactly that -

[Qgis-user] QGIS shutdown python script

2014-02-04 Thread McDonaldR
Hi List Is it possible for QGIS to run a (python) script on shutdown? There is a feature on the QGIS issues list about startup scripts (http://hub.qgis.org/issues/6297) - can shutdown scripts be used in the same way? Say, for example, I have a project in which I am editing a dataset in a

Re: [Qgis-user] Reminder: Freeze starts on 2014-01-24 (4 days)

2014-01-27 Thread McDonaldR
Regarding Jürgen's suggestion for naming the next release Dufive what about continuing the peak theme but incrementing the letter by one so the next release become Eiger after Dufour and then after that something like Fuji, Gasherbrum, Hanang, etc etc? My 2p worth :-) Ross Ross McDonald |

Re: [Qgis-user] Reminder: Freeze starts on 2014-01-24 (4 days)

2014-01-27 Thread McDonaldR
] Sent: 27 January 2014 10:30 To: McDonaldR Cc: Jürgen E. Fischer; qgis-developer; qgis-user Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Reminder: Freeze starts on 2014-01-24 (4 days) Hi! Just a short question (maybe I am not getting something here) Why do we need sortable aliasnames for releases that are still able

Re: [Qgis-user] plugin icon visualization

2013-11-08 Thread McDonaldR
Hi Fabrizio Do you have icon.png in your plugin folder? Did you run the two make commands to build the python files? pyuic4 -o ui_vector_selectbypoint.py ui_vector_selectbypoint.ui pyrcc4 -o resources.py resources.qrc This is the updated PyQGIS cookbook recipe for building a plugin:

Re: [Qgis-user] plugin icon visualization

2013-11-08 Thread McDonaldR
...@gmail.com] Sent: 08 November 2013 14:14 To: McDonaldR Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] plugin icon visualization thanks Ross for your reply! Yes I did steps you're mentioning and below I report my plugin folder configuration. Now I realized that the same situation (no icon displayed) happens

[Qgis-user] Scale based label rendering

2013-11-06 Thread McDonaldR
Hello list I want to vary the size of my labels on features both by attribute and map scale. So, for example, I have a layer of towns and villages and I want towns labelled with a font size of 20 and villages with a font size of 10. I can do this with in the label size expression builder:

Re: [Qgis-user] Scale based label rendering

2013-11-06 Thread McDonaldR
16:54, schrieb McDonaldR: Hello list I want to vary the size of my labels on features both by attribute and map scale. So, for example, I have a layer of towns and villages and I want towns labelled with a font size of 20 and villages with a font size of 10. I can do

Re: [Qgis-user] Scale based label rendering

2013-11-06 Thread McDonaldR
WHEN type = 'town' THEN CASE WHEN $scale 10 THEN 15 ELSE 10 END WHEN type = 'city' THEN CASE WHEN $scale 10 THEN 20 ELSE 15 END END You should get a warning if the syntax in your statement is not correct. Andreas Am 2013-11-06 17:44, schrieb McDonaldR: Thanks Bernhard

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS on Thin Client?

2013-10-10 Thread McDonaldR
Hi Steve I asked the same question on the UK QGIS Google+ group as we are also wanting to trial QGIS within Citrix. From feedback I got it appears there are no problems whether running it as a virtual application or via a virtual desktop session. Matthew Breeze gave positive feedback. Our