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

[Maurício de Paulo]

Hi devs,
I also had problems to get the startup on c++ plugins development. Mainly
because there was no Plugin Builder for C++. So we had to write everything
from scratch and many are repetitive tasks.
I though about writing a plugin builder for c++ but it never got out of
planning phase. Anyone interested in developping?
Best regards,
Mauricio

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:38 PM, sailmcm <sailmcm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> Maaza - once you have QGIS building from source in windows the process
> for building a new plugins is quite simple. Just copy and paste a
> simple plugin folder like copyright plugin, name the folder something
> like myplugin or whatever and then work through each and every file in
> that dir (using search and replace where it makes sense to do so) to
> make it your own. Look in the CMakeLists.txt - its not that hard -
> typically you just need to add your .h and .cpp files to the list. If
> you are able to use linux, you can even more easily just use the
> plugin_builder.py script in that src/plugins directory and it will
> generate for you a 'hello world' C++ plugin.
>
> All that said you will need to understand Qt4 to do anything useful
> once you get going...
>
> Have fun!
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
> > "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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>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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Mauricio de Paulo
Engenheiro Cartografo
MapeandoOBrasil <http://mapeandoobrasil.blogspot.com>
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