[Qgis-developer] macosx dialog issues

[John C. Tull]

Hi Alexander,

Thanks for the explanation. Yes, the improved plugin would be beneficial for many, I suspect. How does your plugin handle mixed geometries? That led to a crash with the ftools plugin.

Cheers,
John

On Mar 6, 2011, at 8:02 AM, Alexander Bruy wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 10:40:54 -0800
> John C. Tull <jctull at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The only problem I had was with Merge Shapefiles. If I tick the 'Select by
>> layers in the folder', I cannot choose a folder in the dialog. The Ok button
>> never becomes available when trying to select a folder. I can select a
>> shapefile and the OK button is available. I might be misunderstanding what
>> this option is intended to do. When turning it off, I can select a folder,
>> but the tool crashed qgis. This was because my folder had mixed geometry
>> types. See output below. I suppose this crash should be avoided somehow.
> 
> 'Select by layers in the folder' checkbox allow you to select and
> merge only some shapes not all available in folder. This can be usefull
> when in folder many shapes with different geometries or when you need
> only to merge only certain files.
> 
> When this checkbox turned off tool will work with whole folder, but note
> that there is no geometry checks and output file will have same geometry
> as first pocessed file. This behaviour is fixed in separate MergeShapes
> plugin from GIS-Lab. I'll port it to fTools soon.
> 
> Also there is a ticket http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3077 related to
> Merge shapefiles tool crashes
> 
> -- 
> Alexander Bruy