<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp60d15a5ayahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false">Hi Graeme, </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false">I usually just alter the opacity in the Layer Properties/Symbology window, that makes spotting overlaps easier. Richard's answer is quite useful, but will probably be more difficult to remember, and requires an additional 3 clicks to accomplish.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false">-Thayer</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> 1. Re: Make selected features dominant in view (Richard Duivenvoorde)<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">----------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Message: 1<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 19:58:08 +0100<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">From: Richard Duivenvoorde <<a href="mailto:rdmailings@duif.net" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rdmailings@duif.net</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">To: SEGGIE Graeme <<a href="mailto:gseggie@systra.com" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">gseggie@systra.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>"<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> <<a href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Make selected features dominant in view<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:d6d24e9f-83a4-b61b-8d0b-b07c6b915353@duif.net" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212); text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">d6d24e9f-83a4-b61b-8d0b-b07c6b915353@duif.net</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Hi Graeme,<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I do not know an answer, but I checked and it's not that selected items<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">always would end up on top...<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">This sounds very reasonable though... and helpfull :-)<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">If it is not already there, it would make a nice Feature Request!<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">There is in the Layer Properties/Symbology/Layer Rendering an option to<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">'Control feature rendering order' ...<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Ok, so you can make an an expression like:<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">is_selected( $currentfeature )<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">which then makes your selected features draw last (on top).<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">You could at least try that.<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I'm wondering if that would/could not be default painting behaviour?<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Regards,<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Richard Duivenvoorde<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">On 12/02/2020 17.34, SEGGIE Graeme wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">> Is there a way to have selected features dominate in the map view? I<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">> mean when selected not all selected features of a layer show as yellow<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">> (default) if there are other features in the same layer above them in<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">> the drawing order. In Arc – anything selected is always shown as such,<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">> which is a lot handier for tracking things down spatially, quickly. Am<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">> wondering if there is a preference that sets this, which I have not<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">> done. 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