Statist 1.0

14.05.2012 16:46 ·  GIS  ·  qgis, plugins, statist

Statist. My first plugin for QGIS. That was a long time ago: 2009, QGIS 1.0.0, start of discussions about including fTools in the core (yes, fTools was a regular plugin that had to be installed manually), only a few third-party plugins, and almost no instructions on how to write Python plugins… And I was younger and didn’t know much (to be fair, I still have a lot to learn).

The last major update of the plugin was also in 2009: I was happy with the functionality, and there were no critical bugs. Later, as I gained knowledge and experience, I thought about refactoring several times, but it didn’t work out. And recently, something came over me, so I sat down and did it.

Users will probably not notice any difference, as there are not that many changes visible to them: only support for getting statistics on joined fields has been added. But there are many more changes under the hood:

• the code to check for the presence of matplotlib has been rewritten
• new signal-slot connection syntax is used
• completely rewritten code for calculating statistics
• unused and duplicate code was removed and classes were moved into separate files
• system font is used for histogram labels

The plugin now lives in my repository, please report bugs and feature requests by mail or in the bugtracker (preferred).