[Qgis-user] Re: QGIS File Browser1.1: no raster layers listed

[Nathan Woodrow]

Not sure what I will be able to do about point 2, but I will have a look
into it.

Ecw, sid files should be listed.  There are on my copy:

[image: PJtZ3.png]

I'll add support for adf files.

- Nathan

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Great, many thanks.
>
> This is my first testing round:
>
> 1. Works fine for tif, jpg files
> 2. Problems with envi files. If you select "All supported files":
> 2.1 *.hdr files are listed. If you do not list but *.shp for shape files,
> it's probably better not to list but the main file for envi files (thus not
> the *.hdr)
> 2.2. *.img are listed
> 2.3 But often envi files are named *.bil or *.bsq for the user to stress
> the
> way multibands are written to disk. *.bil files are not listed, I htink
> they
> should.
> 2.4. The problem with envi files is that the user is free to put any
> extension, as far as there exist another
> *.hdr file with the same prefix. It's even common not to put any extension
> and just have the pair
> imapepita
> imapepita.hdr
>
> but many people use imapepita.bil, imapepita.bin, imapepita.bsq,
> imapepita.img...
> so we have a problem here. Maybe this should be the only case in which the
> ancillary file (the *.hdr)
> should be listed? This is the only general naming convention for envi
> files.
>
> 3. Problems with envi files. If you select "All supported raster files":
> Only *.hdr files are listed, but then QGIS complains that file is not an
> image.
> Perhaps a good listing and QGIS should be modified to actually look for the
> right file? Not easy, because of the problem with the undefined extension.
>
> 4. *.adf, *.sid and *.ECW files are not listed (while can be displayed by
> QGIS) even with "All supported files" selected
>
> 5. Could files and folders be listed alphabetically?
>
> Agus
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