[Qgis-user] WMS Problems with the Windows builds

[Andreas Neumann]

For the sake of helping others that may run into the same problem:

the problem could be solved with the help of Jürgen and Marco.

The standard OSGeo installation path is on C:\OSGeo - I installed under 
C:\Programme\OSGeo, because our IT services told me to do so. As a 
result, qt couldn't find it's image plugins. Jürgen could solve the 
issue by setting the environment variable QT_PLUGIN_PATH:

set QT_PLUGIN_PATH=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\Qt4\plugins

the batch file could be stored in %OSGEO4W_ROOT%\etc\ini\qt4.bat


After that jpeg images can be loaded in the print composer, WMS requests 
and in customized GUI elements of plugins.

Jürgen fixed the OSGeo installer to handle such cases.

Thanks!

Andreas

Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am still having the WMS problems on Windows (also seen on at least one
> OSX machine). It works fine on Linux.
>
> For some very strange reason it only offers the PNG version, which is a
> lot slower than the JPEG version for aerial image WMS. It offers the
> PNG8bit and PNG24bit versions, but no JPEG and no TIFF, although get
> capabilities reports these file formats:
>
> <Format>image/jpeg</Format>
> <Format>image/gif</Format>
> <Format>image/png</Format>
> <Format>image/png; mode=24bit</Format>
> <Format>image/vnd.wap.wbmp</Format>
> <Format>image/tiff</Format>
> <Format>image/svg+xml</Format>
>
> I wonder what is causing the QGIS windows builds making the other formats
> besides PNG to disappear? It can't be the qt-image formats. All of those
> qt-image plugins are present.
>
> The problem appears on QGIS 1.0.2, QGIS 1.1 and trunk (latest OSGeo build).
>
> I would really appreciate if I could find a solution for this problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
>
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