[Qgis-developer] Re: SelectPlus and postgis in trunk

[John C. Tull]

On Apr 14, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Hugentobler  Marco
> <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Barry and John
>>
>> You mean there is a freehand plugin already available?
>> I also think that freehand tool should go to trunk (once the  
>> feature freeze for 1.1 is over).
>> In which repository is the plugin available?
>
> Not quite. My "selectplus" plugin allows users to select features by
> drawing a freehand polygon. The polygon is not stored anywhere/ What
> John would really like is to be able to digitize features by drawing a
> freehand polygon, creating new features in the current layer. I think
> this is probably something that needs integrating into the existing
> layer editing toolset, and so probably needs to be written in C++ in
> the core.

Barry is correct. I wondered if his code could be hijacked and used  
for implementing a freehand polygon drawing tool. Obviously, there is  
the python to C++ issue...

Cheers,
John