i followed the pages i found at Qgis Wiki about plugin design and got it done. One issue i couldn't understand is no connections for OK and Cancel button are not specified in NorthArrow plugin code plugingui.cpp/plugin.cpp. Same i tried to do but i couldn't get desired output, connection for pbnOK_clicked() was not formed with click button event. I. For my code i have code that part myself. I couldn't understand this? kindly guide me in it.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim Sutton</b> <<a href="mailto:tim@linfiniti.com">tim@linfiniti.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi<br><br>Note there is a script in src/plugins/plugin_builder.pl that will<br>generate a plugin template for you that is all ready for your own<br>customisations.<br><br>If you do folow the approach you took of cloning an existing plugin,
<br>be sure to modify <a href="http://configure.in">configure.in</a> too to make sure it gets built. The<br>plugin builder script does this all for you.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Tim<br><br>On 5/30/06, humarco <<a href="mailto:marco.hugentobler@karto.baug.ethz.ch">
marco.hugentobler@karto.baug.ethz.ch</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi nitin,<br>><br>> Am Montag 29 Mai 2006 10:18 schrieb nitin quick:<br>> > Hello Everybody,<br>> > I am currently using qgis0.7.9 downloaded from svn installed on FC4.
<br>> > I need to add plugin to qgis which will display direction of wind.<br>> > NorthArrow Plugin provides similar functionality. So i did make copy of<br>> > that code put my Cock.png file path in place of north_arrow in a new folder
<br>> > named Cock in src/plugins/. I changed the code a bit ( north_arrow to Cock<br>> > , just change of name). and addition in configure script similar o existing<br>> > code. Now my questions are:<br>
> > i). Am i doing correect for adding a new plugin? Is it good way or there is<br>> > scope of improvement which i think will be?<br>> > ii) Is it required to compile Qgis fully to make my plugin functionable .
<br>> > Is there any way where i can only compile new plugin code and link it<br>> > dynamiclly.<br>><br>> There is nothing wrong in creating new plugins by looking how existing ones<br>> work. If you also copied and adapted the auto* stuff of the NorthArrow
<br>> plugin, then your plugin should be built together with qgis. But it is not<br>> required to compile the whole qgis for your plugin. You may just compile the<br>> sources of your plugin into a shared library without building qgis from
<br>> source. All you need for it is the qt and qgis headers and of course you need<br>> to link the plugin to the qgis libraries (libgui, libraster, ...).<br>><br>> > iii)For adding plugin menu to GUI we are using code ..
<br>> ><br>> > qGisInterface->addPluginMenu(tr("&Decoration"),myQActionPointer);<br>> > what does "&Decoration" signify here.<br>><br>> "Decoration" is the name of the menu entry (and Control-D the shortcut for it)
<br>><br>> > Any suggestions on any study material or tutorial which will help me in<br>> > designing plugin are welcome. I am currently reading source code to do so.<br>><br>> On the qgis wiki, there are several articles about plugin programming:
<br>><br>> <a href="http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/DevelopersCorner#head-3709e61959139ab8995e0542a9ad930c2d17090a">http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/DevelopersCorner#head-3709e61959139ab8995e0542a9ad930c2d17090a</a><br>>
<br>> section 'Help on writing plugins'<br>><br>> Marco<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Qgis-developer mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Qgis-developer@lists.qgis.org">Qgis-developer@lists.qgis.org
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