Hi Martin, <br>sorry for this reply so late.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Martin Dobias <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://wonder.sk">wonder.sk</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Giuseppe<br>
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On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Giuseppe Sucameli <<a href="mailto:brush.tyler@gmail.com">brush.tyler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi devs,<br>
><br>
> there is a way to load an editable layer without editing capabilities?<br>
> I searched for a setCapabilities() method, but nothing.<br>
> Reducing the layer capabilities would be useful, especially for plugins,<br>
> obviously<br>
> without adding new capabilities.<br>
><br>
> In a C++ plugin I can extend the concrete DataProvider class.<br>
> There is a way to do the same thing in a python plugin? Maybe creating a<br>
> wrapper<br>
> to the layer dataProvider?<br>
<br>
</div>I am not aware of such functionality. But it would be possible to add<br>
a pair of methods setReadOnly(bool) and isReadOnly() for the layers.<br>
If set as read only, editing would be disabled.<br></blockquote><div>I think this would be a nice feature for pyplugins developers.<br><br>In this moment the only workaround to make a layer uneditable is creating a <br>plugin window containing a new canvas, then adding the layer in this new canvas, <br>
but you can neither use useful tools (e.g all the newest selection tools) or qgis <br>mainwindow capabilities (add layers, move layers, ...).<br><br>I'm going to open a ticket on trac.<br><br>Cheers.<br></div></div>
<br>-- <br>Giuseppe Sucameli<br>