[Qgis-user] Re: Profile Tool plugin crash

[Micha Silver]

On 09/06/2010 14:59, Borys Jurgiel wrote:
> Dnia środa, 9 czerwca 2010 o 13:47:31 Micha Silver napisał(a):
>    
>> The Profile Tool plugin on Windows (OSGeo4W installer on WinXP) causes a
>> crash of QGIS as soon as you move the mouse *after* profile completes.
>> (After the profile appears, if you navigate with *keyboard only*, you
>> can save the profile and close the plugin. Then full functionality
>> returns. But when the profile window is open, *any* mouse movement
>> causes the crash)
>>
>> This was reported already on the QGIS forum:
>> http://forum.qgis.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6497
>>
>> The plugin works as expected on Ubuntu 10.04
>>      
> Thanks, I'll look at this (unfortunately not it this month :()
>    
Cheers, thanks.
>    
>> Another point - When you try to install the plugin without having the
>> correct dependencies, the error message pops up mentioning the Qwt5
>> libs. But this is not the only dependency. In the OSGeo4W "Advanced
>> Install" you must choose both qwt5-libs and pyqwt5-qt4. It would be
>> worth mentioning both libs in the plugin error message.
>>      
> Well, the installer only parses an error reported by Python. It would be a big
> revolution to investigate all dependencies. However we could put dependencies
> to metadata and display them if plugin loading fails.
>    
Ah, I naively thought it was a hand made error message each time...



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