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I'm still using QGIS Brighton to finish a map in Composer and would like to add a north arrow to it. In previous versions I added the arrow as an image, but when I click on 'add image' and click on the map I only see a cross where the cursor would be. The command history doesn't change and no directory appears from which I can choose and customise an image.
How do I access the image directory?
This might only be my opinion, but I had a lot of problems with QGIS's Print Composer especially when I had a mixture of map layers with various Coordinate Reference Systems in the same map. I used to get the dreaded 'bad allocation' error very frequently, and following that my compositions would become blank and non-functional and could only be deleted. Developing the habit of saving all new data promptly to ESRI Shapefiles and all in the same (UTM) CRS and leaving 'on the fly' turned off seems to have cleared up most of my problems. I only turn 'on the fly' on briefly now when I want a quick preview of new incoming GPS data in WGS84. Apart from that I think QGIS generally works best for me with 'on the fly' turned off.
You need to expand the Search directories section
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When you choose "add image" you have to drag the cursor and you will get something like pic.1. Then, to the right side there is search directories you click on it and waiting to open an then you can choose your symbol pic.2.