[Qgis-developer] generic ogr connection

[godofredo contreras]

Hi Tim:
 
I was thinking in provide a way for users to specify
an ogr URI in new connection dialog for database layers. For example
the user could choose in new connection dialog beetween
Postgres, OgrOracle, OgrMySQL, OgrPostgres, and OgrGeneric
types. In the case of OgrGeneric it could be only a QTextEdit in new
connection dialog where the user could write the URI(OCI:freddy/freddy at 192.168.1.3/XE)
instead of specifying the parts of the uri(host, database, type, etc). This way users needing
access to other types of databases like arcsde could rebuild gdal/ogr with arcsde support and just use
ogr generic connection to load their layers into qgis.
 
Best regards
Godofredo Contreras   



> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:12:41 -0300> From: tim at linfiniti.com> To: frdcn at hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] generic ogr connection> CC: qgis-developer at lists.qgis.org> > Hi Godofredo> > Do you mean for file based datasources and db based one? It would> certainly be nice to combine them all in one dialog if we could find a> way to keep it user friendly...> > Regards> > Tim> > 2007/10/24, godofredo contreras <frdcn at hotmail.com>:> >> > Hi qgis developers:> >> > What do you think about having a generic ogr connection(let the user> > specify the URI manually)?> >> > if you think this is a good idea, how should be addresed? a new dialog? or> > in qgsdbsourceselect?> >> > Regards> > Godofredo Contreras> >> > ________________________________> > Climb to the top of the charts! Play Star Shuffle: the word scramble> > challenge with star power. Play Now!> > _______________________________________________> > Qgis-developer mailing list> > Qgis-developer at lists.qgis.org> > http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer> >> >> > > -- > Tim Sutton> QGIS Project Steering Committee Member - Release Manager> Visit http://qgis.org for a great open source GIS> openModeller Desktop Developer> Visit http://openModeller.sf.net for a great open source ecological> niche modelling tool> Home Page: http://tim.linfiniti.com> Skype: timlinux> Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net
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