Improved time determination from filen ames

[fnands]

Hi,

I'm trying to improve the ability to parse dates form file names, but still have to get used to all the GQIS syntax.

Right now the example text shown is taken from layer 0, i.e whichever layer was imported first.

Is there an easy way to make this so the example text can either be set by the user or taken from a chosen filename?

I'll sit down and try and figure out how the code works when I have a bit of time again, but any advice would be appreciated.

[mach0]

Hi, these plugins were more or less my first tries to get something working.
I assume a lot should be rewritten anyway (which I started to do with the qchainage plugin).
At that times my normal workflow was that I got a bunch of rasterfiles (all with the same name destingueshed only by the date) and wanted to display the time series. Hence that is why I only took the first and derived everything else from there.
If you have another idea for a better and more advanced workflow you are welcome.
Recently I've seen that qwt does not work anymore. Have to take a look into this as well.
Somewhere in between the idea was also to write the timeseries data in some kind of metadata which worked quite well, but I think this part was never fully finished.
Setting the example text by hand is IMHO not a good idea (too many mistakes can be made).
But reworking the tabbed UI (I still do not have a better idea for theGUI) would also be great.

[torbjokv]

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