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I spent all afternoon trying to figure out why my complex triggers are working fine in Spatialite-GUI but QGIS refuses to write to the layer. Finally remembered I ran into a similar issue a few months back. Problem is, there's no workaround this time.

I'm using triggers to force a point to snap to the nearest line on another layer, using the midpoint if no geometry is supplied, or the nearest point if it is. Works great in 3.0, but sadly, almost all of the geo functions I'm using (Interpolate Line, Shortest Distance, etc) are not on the list of functions in 2.4.

So... I know there's been discussion about removing the built-in Spatialite from QGIS. That seems to imply there'd be a way to point QGIS at Spatialite installed somewhere else. Does anyone know how to make that happen? Running Windows 7, QGIS 1.7.4. Sorry if it sounds stupid, but I've never compiled anything so I have pretty much no idea what I'm talking about.

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Give the latest dev build, soon to be 1.8, OSGeo4W build a try. It should be running 3.0.1.

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Yes the internal Spatialite was removed but as far as I know it was never used in Windows

also insert typical disclaimer about using dev builds. It should be fine but sometimes it might be unstable

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!! I had no idea. Man, you're always there when I'm in a pinch. Thanks. That settles it. Tomorrow is the day I figure out how to build a Windows installer. (haven't moved up because I'm supporting a dozen PCs with QGIS and need to make sure they're all on the same version, so nightlies are a no-go) Then I'll get to roll out those editable views you built for us, too! – B Freed May 24 '12 at 23:38
@BFreed - Take a look at this post from Linfiniti's blog, as I think he does exactly what you are thinking of: Build the latest QGIS nightly build as a standalone installer for Windows – Get Spatial May 24 '12 at 23:45
Thanks. Yeah, I've been eyeing that up ever since he posted it. I've got VirtualBox up, but so far Ubuntu failed because I can't figure out how to add any repositories (stupid Unity), and Mint Gnome and KDE both failed to run. I've got Debian Squeeze up just now, and am trying to feel my way around. – B Freed May 25 '12 at 0:02
As far as I know you shouldn't need linux to build a nightly installer. You will have to checkout the QGIS source code and install nsis but everything should be the same – Nathan W May 25 '12 at 0:12
drop a question on the mailing list and someone should know how to tackle it. – Nathan W May 25 '12 at 0:13
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