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

[Noli Sicad]

Hi Maaza,

Writing C++ Plugins
http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Writing_C%2B%2B_Plugins

> 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?

I think so.

Do you prefer to write C++ plugin?

I think you have to checkout the qgis source using git and look at the
c++ plugins.

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

e.g. in linux

git clone git://github.com/sourcepole/qgis.git


Then have a look in,

qgis > qgis > src > plugins directory.

Noli


On 1/3/11, maaza mekuria <sailmcm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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