[Marble-devel] overview map not displaying correctly

[A A]

Thanks! Works great now with your workaround.

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Konrad Enzensberger
<e.konrad at mpegcode.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> hello marble does not call:
> //marble QtMainWindow.cpp
> // The config dialog has to read settings.
> m_configDialog->readSettings();
>
> without this, you will not meat the overview methode:
> void OverviewMap::setSettings( QHash<QString,QVariant> settings )
>
> which emits the signal :  emit settingsChanged( nameId() )
>
> and because of this, this slot is not called:
> void OverviewMap::updateSettings()
>
> and because of this, the overview member  m_svgPaths
> will be empty, and no image can be loaded in:
>
> void OverviewMap::changeBackground( const QString& target )
> {
>   m_svgobj.load( m_svgPaths[target] );
> }
>
> this could be a workaround if you do not create a configDialog
> like marble QtMainWindow does (quick and dirty).
>
> void OverviewMap::changeBackground( const QString& target )
> {
> //enz - no config dialog used
> if(!m_svgobj.load( m_svgPaths[target] ))
> {
> QString path;
> path = MarbleDirs::path( "svg/worldmap.svg" );
> m_svgPaths[m_planetID[2]] = path;
> m_svgobj.load( m_svgPaths[target] );
> m_posColor = QColor(255,255,255);
> }
>
> }
>
> regards, konrad
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "A A" <azata42 at gmail.com>
> To: <marble-devel at kde.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 4:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Marble-devel] overview map not displaying correctly
>
>
>> Thank you so much for your suggestion but it still didn't work.
>> However, even if it did, I don't think this wouldn't be a good
>> solution for us since we are embedding the marble widget in a much
>> larger program and would like this to work out of the box without any
>> special customization. This used to work in earlier versions of marble
>> with no problem.
>>
>> Note also that when running the regular marble executable (installed
>> in bin), the map overview works fine. It's only the hello marble
>> program where this doesn't work. I looked in the OverviewMap.cpp file
>> and compared the regular marble program with the hello marble one, and
>> it seems that in the latter case, various settings are not being read
>> in at all, unlike the former case (e.g. I noticed that the function
>> updateSettings() never gets called in the hello marble program).
>> However, I could not figure out what to do to ensure the settings are
>> loaded. Any further ideas?
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Konrad Enzensberger
>> <e.konrad at mpegcode.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> check if worldmap.svg is located in:
>>> ..\data\svg
>>> folder.
>>> if yes, right click on overview widget and set the worldmap.svg
>>> as overview map.
>>> next time you start marble this settings should be restored.
>>>
>>> see ..\plugins\render\overviewmap\OverviewMap.cpp
>>> how the overview map image is set,
>>>
>>> regards, konrad
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "A A" <azata42 at gmail.com>
>>> To: <marble-devel at kde.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 5:06 AM
>>> Subject: [Marble-devel] overview map not displaying correctly
>>>
>>>
>>>> I apologize if this question has been asked before.
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to run the Hello Marble example at
>>>> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/MarbleCPlusPlus without
>>>> modification.
>>>>
>>>> However, the overview map on the upper left corner is not being
>>>> displayed correctly as you can see in the attached image.
>>>>
>>>> I am running on Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit), with Qt 4.7.3 and git master
>>>> branch of marble.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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