[Qgis-developer] QGIS Crash - Serious problem in 2x

[Ted]

forgot,

using Windows OS

Win 7 Professional x64


Thanks

Ted




On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Ted <tiruchirapalli at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Developers
>
> Encountered a very serious problem, looks like this issue is there in 2.x
>
> Ways to reproduce;
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> 1. Add a world boundary shp file in wgs84 (you can use other files too)
> http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php
>
> 2. Open the print composer, add a new map
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> 3. add scale bar
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> 4. close the composer, return back
>
> 5 remove the layer from layer list
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> 6. boom, qgis crash
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> hope you can fix this soon, thanks
>
>
> The scale bar issue
>
> 1. When a file is degree (wgs84), the scale-bar in print composer is
> useless since its trying to use the map unit.
>
> 2. Its logical that, in map composer its always linear map unit as in
> meter, feet, km, etc
>
> 3. using qgis in schools and this pose a serious issue, since the users
> dont understand projection etc.
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> 4. the expected behavior is, immaterial of underlying projection the
> scale-bar should have the option to use linear map unit, specially meters,
> km, mile
>
> 5. read in stackexchange, this is a known issue. hope the dev community
> can help to fix this one.
>
>
> thanks a lot.
>
> hurt my fingers, not able to type proper :(
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> cheers
> ted
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