On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Chris Crook <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > I'm wanting to create a memory provider in Python without invoking the CRS > selection dialog (even if the QGIS settings are set to "Prompt for CRS when a > new layer is created". > > At the moment my code looks like: > > settings = QSettings() > prjSetting = settings.value("/Projections/defaultBehaviour") > settings.setValue("/Projections/defaultBehaviour", QVariant("")) > layer = QgsVectorLayer("point",name,"memory") > if prjSetting: > settings.setValue("/Projections/defaultBehaviour",prjSetting) > > This does work, but it seems a bit cumbersome (at first glance it doesn't > even look like creating a vector layer!), so I'm wondering if there is a > cleaner approach..
Hi Chris I agree this is cumbersome. A possible solution would be to extend the URI for memory provider - currently it accepts only a string with geometry type. New syntax could be introduced that would explicitly set layer CRS, e.g. "geometry=point&crs=4326". Any thoughts and patches are welcome. Regards Martin _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
