[Qgis-developer] dxf read

[Marco Hugentobler]

> Or we could extent the layers to have three renderers - one for each
> geometry type.  We recently added NoGeometry - so I figure we know where
> to look now. That way we could also get rid of that PostGIS filter trick
> (ugly because you could remove the filtering subset string).

Sounds like a good solution in the longer term. Currently, there are also some 
parts in the edit tools and gui that assumes all the objects have the same 
feature type.

Regards,
Marco

Am Mittwoch, 26. Januar 2011, um 12.31:52 schrieb Jürgen E. Fischer:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 26. Jan 2011 at 10:26:11 +0100, Marco Hugentobler wrote:
> > > but I'd expect OGR to present a
> > > layer list (organized by DXF layers and geometry types)
> > 
> > The layers are not organised by geometry type (this is also true for
> > other OGR formats). Maybe, from QGIS side, it needs a similar approach
> > as for the PostGIS tables without entries in geometry_columns?
> 
> Yes, we could allow to set a geometry type and skip all features with a
> different geometry type or better return an empty geometry instead - to get
> the feature count right.
> 
> Or we could extent the layers to have three renderers - one for each
> geometry type.  We recently added NoGeometry - so I figure we know where
> to look now. That way we could also get rid of that PostGIS filter trick
> (ugly because you could remove the filtering subset string).
> 
> 
> Jürgen


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