I'm learning how to create plug-ins so I've been following the tutorial on this website https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/building_a_python_plugin.html. I understand all of the code and the process, however for some reason I can't get the button to be clickable to be able to select the file output.
I'm not exactly sure how I can make changes because it's literally the same code as the tutorial. I'm assuming I haven't missed anything. I put the full code for convenience, but I made not of what exactly isn't working as a comment.
# FULL CODE #
from PyQt4.QtCore import QSettings, QTranslator, qVersion, QCoreApplication
from PyQt4.QtGui import QAction, QIcon, QFileDialog
# Initialize Qt resources from file resources.py
import resources
# Import the code for the dialog
from save_attributes_dialog import SaveAttributesDialog
import os.path
class SaveAttributes:
"""QGIS Plugin Implementation."""
def __init__(self, iface):
"""Constructor.
:param iface: An interface instance that will be passed to this class
which provides the hook by which you can manipulate the QGIS
application at run time.
:type iface: QgisInterface
"""
# Save reference to the QGIS interface
self.iface = iface
# initialize plugin directory
self.plugin_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
# initialize locale
locale = QSettings().value('locale/userLocale')[0:2]
locale_path = os.path.join(
self.plugin_dir,
'i18n',
'SaveAttributes_{}.qm'.format(locale))
if os.path.exists(locale_path):
self.translator = QTranslator()
self.translator.load(locale_path)
if qVersion() > '4.3.3':
QCoreApplication.installTranslator(self.translator)
self.dlg = SaveAttributesDialog()
# Declare instance attributes
self.actions = []
self.menu = self.tr(u'&SaveAttributes')
# TODO: We are going to let the user set this up in a future iteration
self.toolbar = self.iface.addToolBar(u'SaveAttributes')
self.toolbar.setObjectName(u'SaveAttributes')
#This part isn't working!
self.dlg.lineEdit.clear()
self.dlg.pushButton.clicked.connect(self.select_output_file)
# noinspection PyMethodMayBeStatic
def tr(self, message):
"""Get the translation for a string using Qt translation API.
We implement this ourselves since we do not inherit QObject.
:param message: String for translation.
:type message: str, QString
:returns: Translated version of message.
:rtype: QString
"""
# noinspection PyTypeChecker,PyArgumentList,PyCallByClass
return QCoreApplication.translate('SaveAttributes', message)
def add_action(
self,
icon_path,
text,
callback,
enabled_flag=True,
add_to_menu=True,
add_to_toolbar=True,
status_tip=None,
whats_this=None,
parent=None):
"""Add a toolbar icon to the toolbar.
:param icon_path: Path to the icon for this action. Can be a resource
path (e.g. ':/plugins/foo/bar.png') or a normal file system path.
:type icon_path: str
:param text: Text that should be shown in menu items for this action.
:type text: str
:param callback: Function to be called when the action is triggered.
:type callback: function
:param enabled_flag: A flag indicating if the action should be enabled
by default. Defaults to True.
:type enabled_flag: bool
:param add_to_menu: Flag indicating whether the action should also
be added to the menu. Defaults to True.
:type add_to_menu: bool
:param add_to_toolbar: Flag indicating whether the action should also
be added to the toolbar. Defaults to True.
:type add_to_toolbar: bool
:param status_tip: Optional text to show in a popup when mouse pointer
hovers over the action.
:type status_tip: str
:param parent: Parent widget for the new action. Defaults None.
:type parent: QWidget
:param whats_this: Optional text to show in the status bar when the
mouse pointer hovers over the action.
:returns: The action that was created. Note that the action is also
added to self.actions list.
:rtype: QAction
"""
# Create the dialog (after translation) and keep reference
self.dlg = SaveAttributesDialog()
icon = QIcon(icon_path)
action = QAction(icon, text, parent)
action.triggered.connect(callback)
action.setEnabled(enabled_flag)
if status_tip is not None:
action.setStatusTip(status_tip)
if whats_this is not None:
action.setWhatsThis(whats_this)
if add_to_toolbar:
self.toolbar.addAction(action)
if add_to_menu:
self.iface.addPluginToVectorMenu(
self.menu,
action)
self.actions.append(action)
return action
def initGui(self):
"""Create the menu entries and toolbar icons inside the QGIS GUI."""
icon_path = ':/plugins/SaveAttributes/icon.png'
self.add_action(
icon_path,
text=self.tr(u'Save Attributes as CSV'),
callback=self.run,
parent=self.iface.mainWindow())
def unload(self):
"""Removes the plugin menu item and icon from QGIS GUI."""
for action in self.actions:
self.iface.removePluginVectorMenu(
self.tr(u'&SaveAttributes'),
action)
self.iface.removeToolBarIcon(action)
# remove the toolbar
del self.toolbar
def select_output_file(self):
filename = QFileDialog.getSaveFileName(self.dlg, "Select output file ", "", '*.txt')
self.dlg.lineEdit.setText(filename)
def run(self):
"""Run method that performs all the real work"""
layers = self.iface.legendInterface().layers()
layer_list = []
for layer in layers:
layer_list.append(layer.name())
self.dlg.comboBox.addItems(layer_list)
# show the dialog
self.dlg.show()
# Run the dialog event loop
result = self.dlg.exec_()
# See if OK was pressed
if result:
# Do something useful here - delete the line containing pass and
# substitute with your code.
filename = self.dlg.lineEdit.text()
output_file = open(filename, 'w')
selectedLayerIndex = self.dlg.comboBox.currentIndex()
selectedLayer = layers[selectedLayerIndex]
fields = selectedLayer.pendingFields()
fieldnames = [field.name() for field in fields]
for f in selectedLayer.getFeatures():
line = ', '.join(unicode(f[x]) for x in fieldnames) + '\n'
unicode_line = line.encode('utf-8')
output_file.write(unicode_line)
output_file.close()
