[Qgis-developer] Re: Xcode - compile error, doc questions

[Gary Sherman]

On Feb 8, 2009, at 2:41 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> On Feb 8, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Gary Sherman wrote:
>
>>> For some reason, the north arrow plugin won't compile.  With  
>>> moc_plugingui.cpp, plugin.cpp and plugingui.cpp sources I get:
>>>
>>> plugingui.h:21: error: expected class-name before '{' token
>>
>> Try adding:
>>
>> #include <QDialog>
>>
>> after the line containing #include "ui_pluginguibase.h"
>>
> No joy.  I thought of that, since it's that way in another plugin's  
> plugingui.h.

Odd that it compiles fine outside of Xcode.
>
>>> - What is help_viewer app needed for?  The "Help Index" from the  
>>> Help menu opens said index in Safari.  The pdf userguide is linked  
>>> from that index.  If the help_viewer is what is opening Safari,  
>>> seems like that should just be done directly by Qgis.
>>>
>> It is used to view context help from within the various dialogs in  
>> QGIS.
>>
> What is the format of this context help?  I'm just wondering if it  
> could also be opened in a web browser, or the system help viewer.

I suppose it could be, sinct the help files are in a simple HTML format.

>
> Note: just found that the help_viewer in my binary has more of those  
> pesky linking issues :(
>
>>> - A suggestion: have the userguide pdf directly accessible from  
>>> the Help menu - saves an application switch.
>>>
>>> - I notice that the userguide.pdf is from v0.9.1.  Shouldn't this  
>>> have been updated before the 1.0 release?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I noticed this too. The current 1.0 documentation should have  
>> been included, something that can't be fixed on the next  
>> maintenance release.
>>
> "can" be fixed, you mean?
>
Right, my fingers type and I have no control over them.
>
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> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com>
> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>
> All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
>


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