[Qgis-developer] Qgis Api - get a layer by its name

[kimaidou]

Hi Carson,

Thanks for your reply

2010/11/9 Carson Farmer <carson.farmer at gmail.com>

> Hi Kimaidou,
>
> I suspect that is how most plugin developers have implemented this
> functionality, and for the most part it works (save for the situations
> you listed below).
>

Ok


 One solution would be use userData to store the layers uniqueID, and
> then use that to access layers later on.
> First you add each layer name to the combobox, like so:
> combobox.addItem ( layer.name(),QVariant(layer.getLayerID()))
>

UniqueId is the best candidate !


>
> and then when the user select a layer from the combobox, get the
> maplayer by doing something like (untested):
> uniqueId = combobox.itemData(combobox.currentIndex()).toString()
> layer = QgsMapLayerRegistry.instance().mapLayer(uniqueId)
>

Ok


>
> Of course, if you are simply listing all layers in the layer list,
> then you could just use their order in the combobox, as this will be
> the same as the order in the layer list.
> layer = mapCanvas.layer(combobox.currentIndex())
>
> Hope that helps,
>

That helps a lot, thanks !

Kimaidou
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