[Qgis-developer] Plugin Development C++ Windows - Any response?

[sailmcm]

Thanks Goivanni, for the help and encouragment.  I have read both documents and I was not able to resolve all problems. As you suggested I will try harder. 

"G. Allegri" <giohappy at gmail.com> wrote:

>Maaza, I think your approach doesn't help to give you a hand.
>The community cannot supply you the *time* you should invest in trying and,
>maybe, learning the necessary basics to do what you need. You shoud try and
>try and the, eventually, ask about things that go wrong.
>
>QGis plugins are C++, with some macros defined by Qt. Nothing more, nothing
>less (am I wrong?). If you're able to compile C++ code in Visual Studio, you
>don't need to rely on Cmakelist. It can help, because it makes a lot of work
>for you, and you can be inspired by other plugins. But you also can build
>and link the usual way.
>
>Have you read the "QGIS Coding and Compilation Guide" [1]?
>
>giovanni
>
>[1]
>http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/doc/manual/qgis-1.6.0_coding-compilation_guide_en.pdf
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>
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>2011/2/18 maaza mekuria <sailmcm at yahoo.com>
>
>> Can it be possible to create a minimalist plugin using c++ in Windows
>> Visual C++ Express without using all the bells and whistles that are in the
>> other plugins such as CMakelists?
>>
>> Your help may make a difference between using Python and C++. I was able to
>> copy a Python plugin and easily adopt it to my own version of a plugin. I
>> was able to add and remove GUI items by just editing the UI file. I want to
>> do something similar using C++. Is it impossible for a new comer? Do I need
>> a Computer Science degree to? But it should not be as they say "Rocket
>> science" to write a little function.
>>
>> I promise if I get it to work, I will share it with those who are suffering
>> the famine for information. I am not sure why there is lack of documentation
>> on such a simple matter or may be it is not simple or it is esoteric because
>> it is highly dependent on many secret doors and passageways.
>>
>> I confess my stubbornness to use C++ is due to the type of work being a bit
>> intensive and I also have already a C++ code for it and I just need a nicer
>> interface and data store that is free as in "Free Chai" inside QGIS.
>>
>> Anybody there listening to the call from QGIS (Quiet or Slow GIS) desert?
>>
>>
>> Maaza
>>
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