[Qgis-user] attribute actions oddities in 1.3.0?

[JD Comtois]

Hello

I am using Mimas 1.3.0 (do not have the build version handy) on windows
installed using the stand alone installer, installed on laptop with Windows
XP pro operating system.

I am having a strange problem with the attribute action feature.  I want to
be able to play videos or view pictures associated with various points in my
layer.  I have input the path to vlc on my machine (in quotes) and then the
path to the file (in quotes) using the %% argument to get the value in the
attribute:  "C:\program files\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe" "c:\pics_n_vids\%%" is
the action.

In my specific situation, I have 3 video attributes and 3 picture attributes
(the value of each being the name of a video or picture file).  So, I should
be able to simply right click on one of those values from the Identify
Results window and choose the action that I have called View.

This worked perfectly fine in 1.0.1 (or was it 1.0.2??? - it is already
replace so i cannot check but either way, it was working fine) KORE.  But in
1.3.0 Mimas, something strange happens.  The value that is sent to the VLC
video player is not necessarily the value that I selected from the Identify
Results window.  The attribute values are correctly associated with the
attribute name in the Identify Results window (i.e. video1 is shown to
contain the correct filename, etc.) but the value that gets sent to the
player can be the value from any of the other attributes listed in the
Identify Results window.

So I might have to select the value associated with video1 so as to see
picture 2, or select the value displayed for picture3 so as to be able to
play video1, for example.  I am working from layers stored in PostGIS.

I have tried to find any related issue on the forums but have not seen this
situation discussed.

Thanks for any insight on what I might be doing wrong, or for letting me
know that it is the software and not me (so i can stop banging my head
against the keyboard ;-)

jd
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