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 <[email protected]> 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:) > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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