[Qgis-developer] please help me write a QGIS-PostGIS GUI in Python

[Gary Sherman]

On Feb 1, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Maciej Sieczka wrote:

>
> Thanks Barry. You are a patient man, really. I certainly  
> underestimated
> how much work this would take. Seems I'll give in, at least for now.

I think you could approach this project differently. For one, you can  
use
the connections stored in the user preferences and offer them up in your
own dialog. If you need to create a new connection, you could instruct  
the
user to use the other PostGIS dialog, or you could implement your own  
using the
.ui file for the add new connection dialog. Creating a new connection  
amounts
to collecting the required parameters, optionally testing to see if  
you can
connect, and storing them in the user's preferences.

You can save and restore settings using the QSettings object with  
Python. The
"Zoom to Point" plugin does this---see it for an example.

By now you've realized you have to write your own code to manipulate  
dialogs
and fetch/process user input. I'm working on a tutorial for writing a  
plugin
but don't expect it to be done for a while.

-gary


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