[Qgis-developer] Create groups in python plugins

[Andres Manz]

Hi Martin,

> But as always, there has to be someone to create such interface and do
> the connection with legend classes - your patches are welcome!

I'd like to take a look at it after holiday.
qgis is a very nice program and thus I am familiar with using Qt anyway,
I'd love to help out a little bit.

Regards
Andres

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Andres Manz <manz.andres at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Would it be a good idea to implement that feature?
>> I'm not sure if anyone could ever need it.
>> I've read a bit of the code and saw that you would add new
>> groups in QgsLegend.
>>
>> Well, adding new groups is not a problem there. But I'm not sure
>> about how to move a map layer from one group to another.
>> As far as I understand it, this would need QgsLegend to
>> be in the qgis API, where I have some doubts. ;)
>
> Enabling users to work with legend will be a good step forward. I
> think we could create a QgsLegendInterface class available in gui
> library that would allow manipulation with layers and groups in legend
> widget:
> - add / remove a group
> - add / remove layer to/from a group
> - list contents of legend or of one group
> - modify layer / group visibility in canvas
> - more...
>
> But as always, there has to be someone to create such interface and do
> the connection with legend classes - your patches are welcome!
>
> Regards
> Martin
>