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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Calvin,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I also agree this is a pain. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I think the official response to this problem is to right click on the feature in the attribute table and select "Flash Feature" which flashes the feature in red.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I usually use transparency when things overlap. If that is not good enough alone, you can combine it with rule based symbology. For example, everything is opaque until something is selected, then only the selected feature is opaque and the rest are for example 30% opaque:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">100% opacity rule: <span> (is_selected() AND num_selected( ) > 0) OR num_selected() = 0</span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>30% opacity rule: <span>not is_selected() AND num_selected( ) > 0</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">But this won't work if you have different layers that are obscuring each other.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-Thayer</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div></div><div id="ydpc7d31886yahoo_quoted_9495188565" class="ydpc7d31886yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div dir="ltr">>Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:38:39 -0400<br></div><div dir="ltr">>From: C Hamilton <<a href="mailto:adenaculture@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">adenaculture@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>To: Nicolas Cadieux <<a href="mailto:njacadieux.gitlab@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">njacadieux.gitlab@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Cc: qgis-user <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>>, qgis-developer<br></div><div dir="ltr"> <<a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Issue with How Selected Features are<br></div><div dir="ltr"> Displayed When Overlapping<br></div><div dir="ltr">>Message-ID:<br></div><div dir="ltr"> <CABPxTTpS_5S77c8zDQ6M8w-JSiZhb6JF638Q4-QS2B0egs=<a href="mailto:Arw@mail.gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arw@mail.gmail.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">>If there is a large cluster of points obscuring the selected point, even<br></div><div dir="ltr">>that method will not work.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Has there been any interest in changing this behavior in QGIS?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:46 AM Nicolas Cadieux <<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:njacadieux.gitlab@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">njacadieux.gitlab@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Hi,<br></div><div dir="ltr">> Indeed... I usually select a thicker line for feature that are below. This<br></div><div dir="ltr">> way, I can see the selection even if it?s hidden.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Nicolas Cadieux<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <a href="https://gitlab.com/njacadieux" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://gitlab.com/njacadieux</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Le 15 avr. 2021 ? 11:14, C Hamilton <<a href="mailto:adenaculture@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">adenaculture@gmail.com</a>> a ?crit :<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> ?<br></div><div dir="ltr">> I have a user complaint with QGIS who explained that when point features<br></div><div dir="ltr">> overlap and one is selected from the attribute table but is underneath<br></div><div dir="ltr">> other features, you cannot see it highlighted because it is covered by<br></div><div dir="ltr">> other points. Is there any way to have it show that there is a highlighted<br></div><div dir="ltr">> feature there even though it is underneath non-highlighted features? In<br></div><div dir="ltr">> ArcMap the highlights are always shown on the top level of the canvas even<br></div><div dir="ltr">> if they are covered by non-highlighted features.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> I tested this in QGIS and the user was correct.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Thanks,<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Calvin<br></div><div dir="ltr">> _______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">> Qgis-user mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <a href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">> List info: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Unsubscribe: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">-------------- next part --------------<br></div><div dir="ltr">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br></div><div dir="ltr">URL: <<a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/attachments/20210415/9ca88664/attachment-0001.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/attachments/20210415/9ca88664/attachment-0001.html</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div>
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