[Qgis-developer] A common set of functions for QGIS plugins

[Victor Olaya]

+1 to promote the custom widgets. I dont think that many plugin
developers are aware of them, since there is no documentation about
them AFAIK

2016-02-19 13:24 GMT+01:00 Neumann, Andreas <a.neumann at carto.net>:
> Hi,
>
> The upcoming user conference in Girona may be a good opportunity to present
> and advertise about both the common set of Python functions, but also about
> the standard and custom widgets.
>
> The CfP is still running and they are looking for more submissions. Maybe
> someone could do a presentation for Python plugin authors to make them
> aware?
>
> Andreas
>
> On 2016-02-19 11:36, Denis Rouzaud wrote:
>
>
>
> On 02/19/2016 11:29 AM, Nyall Dawson wrote:
>
>
> On 19 Feb 2016 19:35, "Etienne Trimaille" <etienne.trimaille at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm discovering that 'old' topic.
>> Yes, I really like the idea, but I wasn't aware about that.
>> I think the UI should be more uniform between plugins and QGIS, for
>> instance to have :
>> - the same combobox about layers (using the symbol for the geometry type
>> and the EPSG if the checkbox is checked in the Processing settings)
>> - the same combobox for table fields (symbol with the kind of field :
>> integer, char ...)
>> - the same output field with the menu (save to temp file, save to vector
>> file, save to ...) like in processing.
>
> Just a little advice - we need to push people toward the standard widgets
> for these, eg QgsFieldComboBox, QgsMapLayerComboBox. Reimplementing then
> with new Python versions isn't a good idea, since it breaks consistency with
> core (and is also a lot of extra work!)
>
>
> I would say, we even need to advertise the custom widgets.
> All these widgets are availble in Qt Designer, it's quite easy to use them
> from there.
>
>
>
> Nyall
>
>> - ...
>> So I will try to use that and contribute to these wrappers if I can.
>>
>> By the way, is it possible to recommend on the pyqgis cookbook (or the
>> qgis documentation) to use the processing framework more often ? A lot of
>> plugins are useful but we can't use them in batch mode or in complex
>> workflow. Moreover, they often produce only shapefile.
>> There are some very nice settings in Processing like "use selected
>> features", default output format for vector and raster ... I think plugins
>> should try to more compliant with these settings.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2016-02-19 8:55 GMT+01:00 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:
>>>
>>> Il 19/02/2016 08:53, Victor Olaya ha scritto:
>>> > I dont think it wil hurt to add it to the main repo. While we develop,
>>> > and the methods are not used yet, it will be just a bunch of files
>>> > with dead code, so it is not risky, and maybe it is easier to engage
>>> > people that way
>>>
>>> I'd vote for it.
>>> Thanks, Victor.
>>>
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