[Qgis-developer] In with the new, out with the old?

[Nathan Woodrow]

I would like to see one more option on that list:

   - Save to current selected layer

This would write straight back to the current selected layer.  I don't
always want a new layer when doing things like buffers etc.

- Nathan

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Borys Jurgiel <lists at borysjurgiel.pl> wrote:

> > > Hmmmm implementing other file formats to the QgsVectorFileWriter is
> quite
> > > easy, while AFAIK writing to the memory layer requires another
> approach.
> > > Maybe we should encapsulate the QgsVectorFileWriter to provide an
> > > universal class for the 1.7 API? Just a thought - it's late and my
> brain
> > > is busy with a few other threads ;)
> >
> > My preference would be to add the capability to write to other
> > formats. Writing to a memory layer can become unwieldy when working
> > with large layers (which is common with geoprocessing operations).
>
> Actually I think there's no simple answer what is better. I prefer to use
> memory layers as long as it's possible. So I'd prefer to see three options:
>
> - save to memory layer [...name...] and add to the canvas
> - save to file [...path...] and add to the canvas
> - save to file [...path...] and don't add to the canvas
>
> Btw. When saving to files, kinda garbage collector would be extremely
> usable:)
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