[Qgis-developer] Developing Plugins

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Peter

The plugin builder in trunk is working now (linux only) - Ive made
numerous improvements to hopefully make the task of customising the
generated plugin easier. At the moment only 'core' plugins (plugins
that reside within the qgis source tree) are supported. 'External'
plugins (plugins which are built completely separately from qgis
source tree)  support will be added later.

You can create your plugin by running:

<qgis checkout dir>/src/plugins/plugin_builder.pl

And follow the prompts...

Please feel free to let me know if you have any problems. Ill be
updating the wiki tutorial over the next few days....

Regards

Tim Sutton

On 4/3/06, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter
>
> On 4/3/06, Peter Ersts <ersts at amnh.org> wrote:
> > QGis Developers,
> >
> > I am new to QGis+Qt
>
> Welcome!
>
>  and would like a little push in the right direction
> > regarding developing plugins. I apologize ahead of time, if I have just
> > overlooked something that is already on the web.
> >
>
> No problem
>
> > --Most of the instructions on the wiki are for Linux and the
> > pluging-template uses aclocal, automake etc.
>
> Yes all development has historically been Linux centric thusfar -
> building for windows has been an afterthought - this is changing with
> the upcoming 0.8 release.
>
> >Is it recommended that
> > plugins be developed on Linux?
>
> Yes. Life will be easiest for you at this stage and you will get more
> ready access to help from this list if you do...
>
> Are there any instructions/hints for
> > developing on a Windows box?
> >
>
> Mateusz Loskot has been implmenting a build environment using VC++ -
> his patches are making their way into SVN - Ill ask him to announce on
> this list when he thinks its ready for general consumption. His notes
> on the process are here:
>
> http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/BuildingOnWindows
>
> > --My primary target audience for a plugin would be PC users, but the
> > plugin would obviously be usable on all platforms. If a plugin is
> > developed under Linux is it just a matter of updating the makefile to
> > get the plugin to compile on Windows.
> >
>
> Assuming you havent introduced new library dependencies then in general yes.
>
> > --I have been working with Qt 4.1.2 and the plugin-template is written
> > with an older version of Qt, is it recommended that Qt 3.x.x be used? If
> > it is possible to develop on Windows, does anyone have a link to a
> > download site where I can get Qt 3.x for Windows --- Both Qt3 and Qt4
> > are available for Debian.
>
> Use of Qt3 is depreacted as of 0.7.4 release of QGIS. All future
> releases of QGIS for the forseeable future will be based on Qt4. Qt3
> for windows is not free/open source which is one of the main
> incentives for porting everything to Qt4.
>
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
>
> No problem. Feel free to pop in to the IRC channel #qgis on
> freenode.net for real time assistance. I would suggest you develop
> your plugins against the SVN trunk version so that its compatible with
> the new release of QGIS 0.8 when it comes out. I will be rechecking
> the plugin generation scripts and tutorials etc over the next few
> weeks so will welcome any feed back.
>
> Regards
>
>
> --
> Tim Sutton
>
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