[Qgis-developer] Composer grid issue

[John C. Tull]

William,

You can disregard. I reverted to qt-4.5.3-carbon and the issue does  
appear to be tied to qt-4.6. I have not tried 4.6-carbon to see if it  
is a cocoa-specific issue yet.

John

On Nov 4, 2009, at 12:15 PM, John C. Tull wrote:

> William,
>
> I was wondering if you have seen the problem with the new composer  
> breaking some core OS X functionality? If I open an existing project  
> (possibly true with new projects as well), the dock is killed,  
> command-tab to switch between applications does not function, expose  
> and spaces are non-functional, and I have to logout to cure my ails.
>
> Have you built and tested the new composer at all? I'm trying to see  
> if this might be narrowed down to my use of the qt-4.6-cocoa beta or  
> if it is something internal to the new composer changes irrespective  
> of the qt version.
>
> If you could test the current trunk, that would be useful. I just  
> built the xcode project, and the same problem exists as with the  
> cmake build.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: "John C. Tull" <jctull at gmail.com>
>> Date: October 30, 2009 10:42:30 AM PDT
>> To: Marco Hugentobler <marco at hugis.net>
>> Cc: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Composer grid issue
>>
>> Marco,
>>
>> On Oct 30, 2009, at 3:22 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:
>>
>>>> For some reason, my old project now crashes if I try to open in  
>>>> qgis.
>>>> I suspect this might be from changes in the composer structure  
>>>> for qgs
>>>> files, but not certain.
>>>
>>> Oh, this should not happen. Project reading should be backwards  
>>> compatible.
>>> Unfortunately, it does not crash with my test projects. Could you  
>>> send me the
>>> project file for testing?
>>
>> The crashing issue may be specific to that project, perhaps a  
>> symbology issue. I was able to open several other project files  
>> without crashing, but a new and more serious issue has arisen. Now,  
>> opening the a project brings a map composer window to the screen as  
>> well as the canvas. This composer window cannot be minimized or  
>> closed. Worse, it causes Mac OS X Finder, Dock, and Spaces to all  
>> cease functioning. Essentially, it paralyzes the OS X gui. Quitting  
>> qgis does not fix this. The only solution I have found is to logout  
>> and log back in to restore gui functionality.
>>
>> I should add that I am using qt-4.6-beta, so it would be great if  
>> another Mac user with a more conservative qt environment could test  
>> this and see if it happens for them. The key is having an existing  
>> qgis project.
>>
>> Beyond that, I do not have much information to provide that may  
>> help uncover this. We can try to work on this off-list if you would  
>> like.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John
>

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