<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body><div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">It would be good if we could save the result of a fTools operation to a memory layer so you don't have to always write to the disk. You can always save to ogr layer from the Save as... After that too<br>
<br>- Nathan<br><br>Sent from some fancy phone looking thingo<br></div></div><hr><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold">From: </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><a href="mailto:rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com">rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold">Sent: </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">4/07/2012 7:54 PM</span><br><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold">To: </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it">cavallini@faunalia.it</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold">Cc: </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold">Subject: </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Re: [Qgis-developer] plugin dev - save to ogr vector file</span><br><br>
</body></html>Correction: Sextante doesn't solve my problem as the fTools algorithms are still restricted to saving to ESRI shapefiles only (well the centroids algorithm I tested was).<br><br>Rob<br><br><br>On , Rob Nickerson <<a href="mailto:rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com">rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>> <br>> On Wednesday, 4 July 2012, Paolo Cavallini <a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>> wrote:<br>> > Il 03/07/2012 20:17, Rob Nickerson ha scritto:<br>> ><br>> >> I am brand new to QGIS (having got here from my work with OpenStreetMap) so apologies<br>
> <br>> >> if I am posting this in the wrong place. What I am trying to do is adapt the fTools<br>> >> plugin so that it can save to any ogr verctor file format. The reason behind this is<br>> >> that I found the ESRI shapefile format to be restrictive (e.g. attribute values are<br>
> <br>> >> limited to 254 chars - 80 in QGIS??).<br>> ><br>> > that would be a very welcome addition, thanks. please note that fTools are now<br>> > incorporated also in Sextante plugin. The plugin also saves by default in shp, but<br>
> > users can select other formats as well.<br>> > could this solve your problem?<br>> > all the best.<br>> > --<br>> <br>> Sounds like this solves my problem.:-) <br>> <br>> Is it worth spending a few moments to bring qgis online documentation up to date? I struggled to find the info I needed :-(<br>
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