[Qgis-user] Standalone qgis on macos (snow leopard)

[Ramon Andinach]

On 08/10/2010, at 11:59 , William Kyngesburye wrote:

> On Oct 7, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Ramon Andinach wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm trying out qgis on my Mac, and having taken the suggestion that new users should try the standalone installer I now have a couple of questions.
>> 
>> I've used Qgis 1.5.0-3 (standalone) for Snow Leopard and am running macos 10.6.4
>> 
>> 1. Both the instructions on http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/qgis and in the readme indicate that I need to select GDAlTools settings from the Raster menu. I'm having problems finding the Raster Menu. Could some one point me in the right direction?
> 
> The GdalTools plugin may need to be enabled.  Do this from the Plugins menu -> Manage Plugins.

Ah, now I've got a raster menu. Done. Thanks. 

>> 2. I'd also like to be able to use ECW images. Is this possible? If so, what else do I need to do?
>> 
> The GDAL framework in the standalone Qgis can use GDAL plugins (not Qgis plugins) in the standard locations (for GDAL).  I have an ECW plugin that's a separate package.  But I just realized that it will only install if it finds the GDAL framework, so there's no simple way to use it with Qgis standalone.  You would have to install the standard Qgis plus the frameworks.
> 
> Note also that the ECW support on OS X is read-only.  I couldn't figure out some problems with my limited C++ skills, and ER/Leica is no help (and they seem to have killed off Mac and *nix support with their latest SDK).

Read only is fine for my purposes, but it's very disappointing about the SDK.

So, I guess I'm about to find out what I can mess up with a full install.

-ramon.