[Qgis-developer] plugin dev - save to ogr vector file

Tue Jul 3 23:34:59 PDT 2012

Il 03/07/2012 20:17, Rob Nickerson ha scritto:

> I am brand new to QGIS (having got here from my work with OpenStreetMap) so apologies
> if I am posting this in the wrong place. What I am trying to do is adapt the fTools
> plugin so that it can save to any ogr verctor file format. The reason behind this is
> that I found the ESRI shapefile format to be restrictive (e.g. attribute values are
> limited to 254 chars - 80 in QGIS??).

that would be a very welcome addition, thanks. please note that fTools are now
incorporated also in Sextante plugin. The plugin also saves by default in shp, but
users can select other formats as well.
could this solve your problem?
all the best.
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