[Qgis-user] Writing plugins::"export selected object to OGR"

[Martin Dobias]

On 2/6/07, Oleg Gusev <oleg at crista.uni-wuppertal.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 13:27 schrieben Sie:
> >
> > sorry, but I did not find the "export to shapefile" function in qgis.
> > Could you give me a hint?
> >
>
> In ./src/core/qgsvectorfilewriter.cpp
>
> QgsVectorFileWriter::QgsVectorFileWriter
> ...
>   mOutputFormat = "ESRI Shapefile"; //hard coded for now!
> ...
> QString driverName = "ESRI Shapefile";
> ...
>

The mentioned class in fact is not finished and I'm not sure it works
at all. So far QGIS lacks the functionality of a generic OGR (or
shapefile) output, so it might be better not to create a plugin for
this - improving vector file writer class to be usable would be
better.

Martin