[Qgis-developer] Custom raster drawing

[Marco Hugentobler]

On Tuesday 12 June 2007 16:51:35 Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> > But can't you just use the raster transparency branch to do this? The
> > solution there is not nice from a design point of view, as it adds just a
> > new drawing mode. But it should do for the short time.
> > Load a raster, open the properties dialog, set 'Color Map' combo box
> > to 'Custom Colormap' and go to tab 'Colormap'. Then set number of entries
> > to 5, set 'Color interpolation' to 'Linearly' and press 'Classify'. Then
> > double click on the values to enter 0, 0.9, 0.95, 0.99, 1. Then double
> > click on the color boxes to set 0 to gray, 0.9 to gray, 0.95 to yellow,
> > etc. and press 'Apply'.
>
>   Ah ha! This looks like what I need. I haven't checked that there's
> Python bindings so I can set this up from my plugin yet though...

Right, python bindings for that functionality are missing. If you want to add 
them, the functions QgsRasterLayer::setCustomClassificationEnabled, and 
QgsRasterLayer::setValueClassification need to be exposed and also the struct 
ValueClassificationItem.

Marco

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Dr. Marco Hugentobler
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee
marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch