[Qgis-user] creating a python plugin to autopopulate some of the Georeferencer properties

[Nathan Woodrow]

Don't stress. I'm going to move it to core in 2.16. Will let you know once
it's done.

- Nathan

On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 11:21 pm John Layt <jlayt at kde.org> wrote:

> On 26 March 2016 at 00:03, Eric Goddard <egoddard1010 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Awesome, thanks John. We have about the same number of images to georef
> so
> > that will be a big help. I looked at the georeferencer code which is how
> I
> > discovered that some of the properties were stored in QSettings. I'm not
> too
> > familiar with c++ though, but since the qgis api can be used to do custom
> > applications I was hoping for a constructor for the georeferencer that I
> > could use.
>
> I did look at forking the C++ georeferencer and adapting it, or
> perhaps creating my own python bindings using SIP, but the thought of
> having to maintain and install compiled versions for all three
> platforms just seemed more hassle, even though I am a C++ developer.
>
> Trying to think of hacky ways to do this you could trigger the
> mActionRunGeoref QAction via QgisInterface.rasterMenu().actions(), but
> that would only open the georeferencer, it wouldn't get you having the
> right file preselected, there simply isn't an api or setting to do
> that. I guess it would allow you to have a plugin that when clicked on
> presets the settings you need (including directory) before launching
> the georeferencer.
>
> The ideal would be to move a lot of the code into the public api with
> python bindings and have a processing plugin so it can be python
> scriptable, but I just don't have the time to do that. One day the
> poor usability will get too much though and I will fix it...
>
> John.
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