Re: [Gpsbabel-code] Windows GUI mis-handles pasted or dropped files

[tsteven4 <tst...@gm...>]

Jan,

Thanks for the offer of help.

the source is at:
https://code.google.com/p/gpsbabel/source/checkout

mingw + g++ is what many of us use.

and see
https://code.google.com/p/gpsbabel/source/browse/trunk/gpsbabel/README.contrib

Steve

On 6/7/2014 9:05 AM, Jan Depner wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 23:56 -0500, Robert Lipe wrote:
>> I'm back in my home country, but about to retire for the evening.  I
>> think we've identified the following issues here.
>>
>> 1) Windows stupidly makes local file drops into URLs because it's
>> Windows.
>> Solution1) replace path() in MainWindow::dropEvent with toLocalFile()
>>
>> 2) Windows stupidly mixes forward slashes and backslashes in filenames
>> because Windows.
>> Solution2) If http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qurl.html#path can be
>> believed, "...will use forward slashes"
>>
>> 3) We quote quoted data.
>> Solution3) In MainWindow::browseInputFile, test if first character is
>> a quote and then skip.
>>
>> 4) We mishandle multiple files dropped.
>> PossibleSolution) Disallow that.
>> BetterSolution) Make relevant data structures handle QStringList
>> instead of glomming them together (badly) at ahd end of
>> browseInputFile()
>>
>> 5) Apparently a drag of an output file is actually useful.  (It also
>> sounds dangerous for accidental overwrites...)
>
> Just do the ever popular "Did you really want to do that?"
> QMessageBox ;-)
>
> Related questions... I wouldn't mind looking in to some of these but
> where do I check out the latest source code?  Also, I have Windows 7 64
> bit running in VirtualBox on a Linux system but I do all of my Windows
> software development in MinGW with gcc (I don't have or want Visual C
> ++), is that a problem?  I've been doing 2D and 3D graphical sonar and
> LiDAR data editing (and mapping) applications in C++/Qt for about ten
> years (and FORTRAN, C, Motif, CALCOMP, DISPLA, and many others for the
> 25 years prior to that).  Now that I'm retired I've got some time to
> burn.
>
>
>> Solution5) don't subclass MainWindow::dragEnterEvent() & dropEvent()
>>   Instead subclass the specific input widget for the current code and
>> new code (bonus points for refactoring/reusing) to set
>> outputFileNames_ for the new output drop events.
>>
>> They're approximately ordered by development cost.  I think #1 and 2
>> combined are a one-liner plus testing.
>>
>> I'll put this on my list tackle, but time's pretty scant for the next
>> few weeks so if you're a budding Babel-head looking for a starter
>> project, please go for it.
>>
>> RJL
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:07 PM, SRE <ste...@cl...> wrote:
>>          At 06:12 AM 6/5/2014, Jan Depner wrote:
>>          >Not necessarily.  You may want to overwrite an existing file.
>>          
>>          
>>          ... or just change the extension without having to browse or
>>          type or paste the full path.
>>          
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