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

[Martin Dobias]

I think I could do only typical estimation when people work on it in
spare time - once someone will volunteer to do it, we will have it.
Whether for 0.9 or any other version - I don't know.

Thinking about your idea to create a plugin, in fact only thing you
need to do is to create a new (empty) shapefile (or other file type)
with appropriate fields for attributes. Then you can open that new
layer in QGIS and add all features from your data source to the new
layer using QGIS vector provider.

Martin

On 2/8/07, Wolfgang Qual <Wolfgang.Qual at muenchen.de> wrote:
> Hello Martin,
> I agree that it would be better to have this "OGR-export"-functionality
> inside the vector file writer class, but can you estimate when this will be
> part of QGIS? 0.9/1.0...? Maybe it would be handsome to have a plugin
> for the time in-between...
>
> Regards,
> Wolfgang
>
>
> Martin Dobias schrieb:
> > 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
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