[Qgis-developer] Plotting Moving Points on a map

[Martin Dobias]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Luca Pascale<pascale.luca.it at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
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> After that I want to wait 1 second (for example) and replot the same Feature
> on an update coordinate (x1,y1)= (x,y+something).
>
> I have tried vl.changeGeometry(.....) but don't works. Any suggestions ?

That's because you would have to put the layer into editing mode. When
in editing mode it gathers all changes to internal buffer and finally
allows to do a commit (store data permanently in data provider) or do
a rollback (forget all changes). You could avoid this by calling
directly provider's changeGeometryValues() function.

For displaying data with regular updates I would suggest you to draw
the points as map canvas items: the main advantage is that the
background map doesn't have to be rendered every second, only the
points are changed.


> Moreover I need that only the Point Vector Layer being refreshed and not
> also the underlying map. Otherway while refresh has done I'll see a white
> screen without any map.

As already written above, map canvas items is the way to go. Try
exploring the QgsVertexMarker class, it might be useful for you.

Martin