[Qgis-developer] deselecting features - last minute API change?

[Martin Dobias]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Borys Jurgiel <borys at wolf.most.org.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
> We can freely add vector features to selection (as well with gui as api) but
> can't deselect any feature. It's not a problem for plugins - they can remove
> selection and select again. But the problem is bigger for user who wants to
> select "all except something" or just has selected one bridge too far. I can
> imagine a number of future plugins dependent on manually selected features,
> so the ability of deselecting features is quite important.
>
> The reason is that we haven't any 'QgsVectorLayer::deselect' method. We have
> the following:
>
> QgsVectorLayer::select (in various variants)
> QgsVectorLayer::invertSelection
> QgsVectorLayer::removeSelection
>
> So it seems naturally to add also 'deselect'. Is there any reason for what it
> is not implemented yet? If none, can I implement it before 1.0.0? We can wait
> with gui behaviour changing for 1.0.1, but it would be good to have at least
> the methods ready in the 1.0.0 API.

I think there's no reason not to have it in 1.0.0. Looking at your
post again I see I've misread it a bit and haven't noticed that you're
actually volunteering to do that :-) Nevermind... it's in trunk,
r9729.

Martin