[Qgis-developer] Where, O Where is the Python/C++ API Documentation for 1.6 QGIS

[maaza mekuria]

Thank you Noli!  

I do use all the other documentations available and I sometimes have to bang my head on the virtual wall and I sometimes worry if my head will crack or I go nuts before I get the answer. But I am quite happy with what I have been given already, I am provided much by many who labored before me. If only I could learn how to make C++ plugins then, may be then, all the mysteries will be over, and I could join the ones that contribute to the welbeing of the user base. 

I was under the impression that the C++ API methods return the same data as the Python methods. Is that true or am I thinking the unthinkable?

Thank you again for a swift response!

May you have a blessed new year,

Maaza 

--- On Sun, 1/2/11, Noli Sicad <nsicad at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Noli Sicad <nsicad at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Where, O Where is the Python/C++ API Documentation for 1.6 QGIS
To: "maaza mekuria" <sailmcm at yahoo.com>
Cc: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Date: Sunday, January 2, 2011, 7:27 PM

Hi Maaza.

Here is the C++ API.

http://doc.qgis.org/head/index.html

I think there is no documentation of the Python API to corresponding
to C++, however, Qgis have pyqgis cookbook and other useful tools.

http://www.qgis.org/pyqgis-cookbook/

http://pyqgis.org/builder/plugin_builder.py

You can look at the plugins in the repository, visit the sites and
download the plugins and see how they are implemented in python.

http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Python_Plugin_Repositories

You also install the plugins and browse the plugin directory to see
the python codes.

Compiling QGIS, visit this site (below).

http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Installation_Guide

Noli




On 1/3/11, maaza mekuria <sailmcm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am wondering which APIdocumentation is applicable for Python functions for
> Version 1.6 Copiapo release.
>
> For
>  example, I was using QGSGeometry and according to the documentation it
> takes a point and returns a double and another argument that receives a
> vertex (closest) on the line segment geometry.
>
> Similar discrepancy exists for closestsegmentWithContext.  exists. The
> documentations says it like this,
> double QgsGeometry::closestegmentWithContext(qgsPoint,
>            minDistPoint,beforeVertex)
>
> but in the 1.6 version I am using, it give an array of results and it must
> be retrieved as part of an array.
>
> Where
>  would be the API docs that corresponds to a particular version of the
> software. I am assuming that the Python functions parallel those of C++.
>  Until I could run with all the C++ crowd, (I am seriously contemplating
>  to do just that, except I do not know how?) can you help me walk along
> the pathway of QGIS? If I could compile QGIS in QT I would jump to it
> immediately. I also wanted to just compile a dll in QGIS instead of
> compiling a complete3 application, I do not want to create a separate
> GUI, but just a dll that would be called like a Python
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Maaza
>
>
>
>



      
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