Some curious findings just now after reviewing several hours of Screen recordings of using QGIS on various operating system platforms (eyes... bleeding)...<div><br></div><div>What I noticed...<br><div><br></div><div>1. Double click layer to Launch Properties Window</div>
<div>2. (do nothing or make changes) Simply single click APPLY/OK and QGIS crashes</div><div><br></div><div>VS</div><div><br></div><div>1. RIGHT CLICK layer,</div><div>2. Select Properties from contextual menu to launch Properties Window</div>
<div>4. Do what ever you like then click APPLY/OK...</div><div>5. no problem</div><div><br></div><div>I repeated this test about 10 times on OS X.6.8 cleaned caches and new .plist file and the new QGIS 1.7.1-2 from William Kyng's site, with these exact same outcomes as above.</div>
<div><br></div><div>However, after about the 10th relaunch of QGIS 1.7.1-2 after crashing it, I was unable to reproduce (no crashes) after about 30+ properties toggles and 10+ different QGIS relaunches.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Now (to add another variable). After I completed</div><div><br></div><div><div>1. launch QGIS</div><div>2. Load Natural Earth shp layer</div><div>3. Double Click Natural Earth shp layer to Launch Properties Window</div>
<div>4. (do nothing) Simply single click APPLY/OK and QGIS</div></div><div>5. OK</div><div>6. Scroll mouse zoom map canvas</div><div><div>7. Double Click Natural Earth shp layer to Launch Properties Window</div><div>8. (do nothing) Simply single click APPLY/OK and QGIS crashes</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>and returns back to</div><div><br></div><div><div>1. launch QGIS</div><div>2. Load Natural Earth shp layer</div><div>3. Double Click Natural Earth shp layer to Launch Properties Window</div><div>
4. (do nothing) Simply single click APPLY/OK and QGIS crashes</div></div><div><br></div><div>...</div><div><br></div><div>Soooo far I am unable to crash QGIS IF I invoke the Properties Window via Right Mouse click on Layer.</div>
<div><br></div><div> could this be the key to my issues? I hope so... will ONLY use right click layer to invoke properties window from now on to test.</div><div><br>mars</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Mars Sjoden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marsofearth@gmail.com">marsofearth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Yah, I am wondering if there is a certain hardware configuration on my machines that is not agreeing with Qt cocoa.<div>
<br></div><div>Apple hardware tested:</div><div><br></div><div>3x iMac 3.06ghz core2duo, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS</div>
<div>1x iMac 2.00ghz core2dou, ATI radeon hd2400</div><div>1x macbookpro 2ghz, core dou, ati radeon???</div><div><br></div><div>recent testing on:10.6 vanilla</div><div><br></div><div>QGIS 1.7 to 1.7.1-2 (and 1.8) - including William Kyng's required frameworks</div>
<div><br></div><div>opening Properties dialogue windo and selecting OK or APPLY (either after making changes or making no changes) will at some point seemingly randomly crash QGIS </div><div><br></div><div>With the latest 10.6.8 update (or perhaps 1.7.1 not sure which came first) I have one iMac 3ghz machine that will kill QGIS everytime I open a properties window and click OK or APPLY without making any changes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just curious if there is some sort of hardware issue since I have flat out re-installed 10.6 on many of my machines with the only extra software installed including QGIS and the frameworks and still have the same issue.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Of note,</div><div><br></div><div>I have tested the latest operating systems from </div><div>OSGeo (ubuntu 11?)</div><div>Fedora 15</div><div>Mint 11, Katya</div><div>Debian 6 Squeeze</div><div>OpenSUSE 11</div>
<div>and Windows 7</div><div> both on separate partition tables without a virtual machine and in Virtual Box, Parallels 7 and VMWare 4.</div><div><br></div><div>I still have instability issues, although found OpenSUSE 11 and Windows 7 to be the most stable so far allowing for up to an hours worth of work before a crash.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The crashes in OpenSUSE 11 seem to be related to the properties dialogue window OK/APPLY (that is when the crashes occur), while on Windows 7 it is more random through out the use of QGIS.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Datasets I have been testing with have been from the openly available Natural Earth shapefile datasets as you suggested William.</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div>
Mars</div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>
</div></div>What sort of problems are you having? I don't think there is anything specific to a system version, it's more connected with what Qt version and type (carbon vs. cocoa). Newer systems need Qt cocoa, definitely Lion does.<br>
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There are a few known issues, with bug reports and mentioned in my distribution readme (font selection, non-ascii chars in GRASS shell, max # open files). A couple other recent issues I can think of: odd georeferencer window behavior, minimized globe plugin panel appears on top of upper-left corner toolbar.<br>
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Much of this probably has something to do with Qt cocoa.<br>
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