[Qgis-user] Legend block behaviour in composer

[Laurence Béchet]

Thank you Richard for the tip, but I'm already using that feature (or do 
not use the auto update to be more accurate) (that's why I have 3 legend 
boxes).
The trick is what Nyall suggested: un-check "resize to fit content".

It's great that qGIS can be so flexible! Thanks for the help.
Laurence

On 27/01/2017 11:09 p.m., Richard McDonnell wrote:
> Nyall,
>
> While the legend is selected go to *Item* *Properties*, *Legend Items* 
> there is a tick box *Auto Update* untick it.
> I think this should do what you want, the problem is though that if 
> you add other layers and wish to add them, change them, they wont be 
> added to the legend unless you refresh, which will result in a 
> resetting of the layers, hope this helps.
>
> Regards
>
> Richard.
>
> On 27/01/2017 00:49, Nyall Dawson wrote:
>> On 27 January 2017 at 09:25, Laurence Béchet<bechet.laurence at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have several blocks of legend in my composer that I group together to have
>>> a final nice display:
>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/92195218/legend.jpg
>>>
>>> To do so I have to stretch each block so that the final version looks like
>>> one single block and not several blocks put together:
>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/92195218/legendORG.jpg
>>>
>>> A very annoying thing is that each time I refresh the composer, my legends
>>> get refreshed to their original rectangle and I have to reshape everything
>>> ... I thought that if I locked the blocks they would not get refreshed - but
>>> they do. I also tried to group them, but again they get refreshed. Is there
>>> a way to keep the final shape?
>> Uncheck "resize to fit contents" under the legend item properties,
>> "main properties" section.
>>
>>> Also it took me a while to discover that to pick up several blocks one by
>>> one you need to use the shift key and not the control key (as in most
>>> software). Is it normal or is it something I can configure somewhere?
>> Shift is the standard used in layout/illustration packages. Ctrl
>> clicking cycles through selecting overlapping elements.
>>
>> Nyall
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