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

[Nathan Woodrow]

It would be good if we could save the result of a fTools operation to a
memory layer so you don't have to always write to the disk.  You can always
save to ogr layer from the Save as... After that too

- Nathan

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From: rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com
Sent: 4/07/2012 7:54 PM
To: cavallini at faunalia.it
Cc: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] plugin dev - save to ogr vector file

Correction: Sextante doesn't solve my problem as the fTools algorithms are
still restricted to saving to ESRI shapefiles only (well the centroids
algorithm I tested was).

Rob


On , Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wednesday, 4 July 2012, Paolo Cavallini cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> > 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.
> > --
>
> Sounds like this solves my problem.:-)
>
> Is it worth spending a few moments to bring qgis online documentation up
to date?  I struggled to find the info I needed :-(
>
>
> rob
>
> > Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia
> > www.faunalia.eu
> > Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc
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