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

[db-esm]

Hi Nathan,

Thanks for the help.

It's too late (for this project) for me to move up to the dev version right
now, but that could be very helpful in the future.

I assume when QGIS 1.9 is released, all this will "just work"?

Thanks again,

David



Nathan Woodrow wrote
> 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@

> > 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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