[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #3810: Join attributes by location crash

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#3810: Join attributes by location crash
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   Reporter:  bderstine                         |              Owner:  cfarmer      
       Type:  enhancement                       |             Status:  new          
   Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |          Milestone:  Version 1.7.0
  Component:  fTools                            |            Version:  Trunk        
   Keywords:                                    |   Platform_version:  7, 64-bit    
   Platform:  Windows                           |           Must_fix:  No           
Status_info:  1                                 |  
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Changes (by bderstine):

  * priority:  critical: causes crash or data corruption => major: does not
               work as expected
  * type:  bug => enhancement


Comment:

 More detail: I tried again today with 1.8.0-10.
 Attribute Summary set to "Take attributes of fist located feature"
 Output table: Keep all records (including non-matching target records)

 Process started at 8:35am, progress bar jumped to 15% immediately and then
 doesn't move, and I get the little "thinking" mouse pointer (likely due to
 all the processing that's happening behind the scenes, though this is not
 ideal UI design).

 A spatial join in ArcGIS constantly displays a running count of #
 processed, in chunks, so you know that it's still actually doing
 something.  Something like that would vastly improve the UI here.

 At 9:14am, I get the pop-up window telling me that it "created output
 shapefile: ..."  So I guess I was wrong.  I guess I'll change this to
 "enhancement" and "major".

 I feel strongly that either (a) the progress bar needs to be fixed so that
 it actually does update to show progress, or (b) some other indicator of
 progress should be added to inform the user that the process is still
 working.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3810#comment:7>
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