[Qgis-developer] Re: qgs->apl (ArcPad)

[Mateusz Loskot]

Maciej Sieczka wrote:
> Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>> Maciej Sieczka wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Is this something you need very fast?
> 
> Well, how do you find Wednesday morning :D?

Maciej,

I can't take it so fast, sorry :-(

>> The fastest option is to create a script converting QGIS project file
>> into ArcPad XML file. More user-friendly but more complex option is to
>> write QGIS plugin.
> 
> I was thinking of the of a simple bash (+awk if needed) script. I can't
> do anything more than that.

It should be feasible.

>> Unfortunately, I'm not able to develop any plugins in next 2-3 weeks.
> 
> I don't have the PDA at hand now to try anything either, and the darn
> ArcPad evaluation won't work in wine (it installs but crashes). Maybe I
> could try installing QGIS on Windows and writing the script there,
> using msys to emulate bash+unix tools. Does that make any sense to you?

You can write script on Linux, then copy it on Windows machine.
Also GnuWin32 [1] tools should work.


[1] http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net

Cheers
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Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net