[Qgis-developer] How to modify QGIS UI at start?

[Nathan Woodrow]

You will have to running the latest dev version of QGIS for this to work as
--configpath is broken in 1.8.

This is what you should do:

start "Quantum GIS" /B "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%"\apps\qgis\bin\qgis-dev.exe
--customizationfile "%cd%\QUANTU~1\Esm.ini"

If you call the batch file rather then the exe it will set everything up
for you

"%OSGEO4W_ROOT%"\apps\qgis\bin\qgis-dev.bat--customizationfile
"%cd%\QUANTU~1\Esm.ini"

the --configpath and --optionpath args just take a folder, there is no
convention.  I am using app in my example just to keep it simple but it can
be anything.

- Nathan

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:52 PM, db-esm <david at esmarkets.com> wrote:

> This is from a .bat file:
>
> start "Quantum GIS" /B "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%"\apps\qgis\bin\qgis.exe --configpath
> "%cd%\QUANTU~1\Esm.ini"
>
> I notice in the example you mentioned that you are not using a file name
> with --configpath, you're using only a path.
> Is there a specific file name that must be used?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> David
>
>
>
> Nathan Woodrow wrote
> > David,
> >
> > Can you paste the command line call you are using.
> >
> > --configpath does work, I use it one of my projects here
> > https://github.com/NathanW2/qmap/blob/master/src/loader_src/qmap.bat
> >
> > - Nathan
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:15 PM, db-esm <
>
> > david@
>
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> When I try to use "code" or "customizationfile" as a command line
> option,
> >> I
> >> get an error message like:
> >> "The layer C:\Users\Public\ThumbImage\--code is not a valid layer and
> >> cant
> >> not be added to the map"
> >>
> >> The "--configpath" option doesn't result in an error message, but has no
> >> effect: the UI settings are still read from (and written to) the Windows
> >> registry.
> >>
> >> Perhaps on Windows, QSettings always uses the registry now?
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Nathan Woodrow wrote
> >> > Yes it works on all platforms.
> >> >
> >> > - Nathan
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:31 PM, db-esm <
> >>
> >> > david@
> >>
> >> > > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Does this work on Windows?
> >> >>
> >> >> Sorry, I should have mentioned from the beginning that we're on
> >> Windows.
> >> >>
> >> >> David
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Nathan Woodrow wrote
> >> >> > If you save the ini file out and edit it by hand.  It's just a
> bunch
> >> of
> >> >> > true and false switches.  You can can then load QGIS using the
> >> >> > --customizationfile your.ini option and it will change the UI on
> >> load
> >> >> >
> >> >> > QGIS can also take a --code yourpythonfile.py that will run after
> >> the
> >> >> > project is loaded.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > - Nathan
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Marco Bernasocchi
> >> >> > <
> >> >>
> >> >> > marco@
> >> >>
> >> >> > >wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> On 05/01/2013 08:19 PM, db-esm wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>> Yes, but we need to have this happen automatically without users
> >> >> having
> >> >> >>> to do
> >> >> >>> it manually.
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>  IIRC you can deploy a customization.ini file, it will be read at
> >> >> >>> startup
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> ciao
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> >> >> >>
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