New Year's present – QField 1.0 RC1

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.

Using Threads in PyQGIS3

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…

QGIS2 compatibility plugin

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…

Updating PyQt signals that use lambda in QGIS with 2to3

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…