It was a long and winding road but we are very excited to announce the General availability of QField 1.0 Release Candidate 1.
We ask you to help us test as much as possible this Release Candidate so that we can iron out as many bugs as possible before the final release of QField 1.0.
While porting a plugin to QGIS3 I decided to also move all it’s threading infrastructure to QgsTasks. Here three possible variants to implement this.the first uses the static method QgsTask.fromFunction and is simpler to use. A great quick solution. If you want need control you can look at the second Weiterlesen
The Release of QGIS 3.0 was a great success and with the first LTR (3.4) scheduled for release this fall, it is now the perfect time to port your plugins to the new API. QGIS 3.0 is the first major release since September 2013 when QGIS 2.0 was released. During Weiterlesen
Lately I’ve been spending time porting a bigger plugin from QGIS 2.8 to 3 while maintaining 2.8 compatibility. You can find it at https://github.com/opengisch/qgis2compat/ and https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qgis2compat/ One code to rule them all. My target was to have to edit the source code as little as possible to simulate a lazy Weiterlesen
Just for the sake of documenting things, when running qgis 2to3 on a plugin I encountered a tricky situation regarding signals. MYQGISDIR/scripts/2to3 -f signals -w my/plugin/path The original code: extra_arg = „my test argument“ QObject.connect( action, SIGNAL( „triggered()“), lambda extra_arg=my_arg: show_extra_arg(extra_arg)) def do_load_project(extra_arg): print extra_arg # „my test argument“ The Weiterlesen
Here an example on how to work with threads in a consistent and clean manner in QGIS python plugins
After getting QField up and running in Android 5, we felt it was time to start documenting how QField works, we started documenting how to install and use QField. We also added a section on how to handle your data to get them on QField. It is all pretty basic, Weiterlesen
Working on QField I had the necessity of passing values from the QtActivity.java to the Qt cpp world, here how I did it using an Intent that is sent to the QtActivity (the one you should not edit that comes with Qt). For much more information see this post series. hopefully Weiterlesen
While preparing some 3D scenes for an exibition I discovered the SpaceMouse by 3dconnexion. A neat device we plan on installing in front of a projected globe. To get it to run in Ubuntu first get the drivers from www.3dconnexion.eu/service/drivers.html then sudo apt-get install libmotif3 mkdir -p /tmp/3D3dxware-linux cd /tmp/3D3dxware-linux Weiterlesen