[Qgis-developer] Help Needed in retrieving file path from the layer name

[Bishwarup Banerjee]

Dear Carson and Luiz,

Thank you very much for the help. I am able to do now what I wanted.

Bye and take care
Sonai

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Carson Farmer <carson.farmer at gmail.com>wrote:

> If you can get the map layer from the layer registry, then should be
> able to use layer.source() (or layer.publicSource() to hide passwords)
> to get the layer path information.
>
> Carson
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Bishwarup Banerjee
> <bishwarup.banerjee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Is there any way to get the entire file path from the layer name?
> > For example:
> >
> > A user selects a layer inside a combobox, which in turn accesses the map
> > layer registry.
> > Now I want to know the full path of the layer selected.
> > If the layer name through combobox is "xyz"
> > Then I want to get "c:/aa/bb/xyz.shp" or the exact location of the layer,
> in
> > the harddisk.
> >
> > Any help regarding this will be highly helpful and appreciated.
> >
> > With Warm Regards,
> > Sonai
> >
> >
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>
>
> --
> Carson J. Q. Farmer
> ISSP Doctoral Fellow
> National Centre for Geocomputation
> National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
> http://www.carsonfarmer.com/
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