[Qgis-developer] Re: New composer draw shapes

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi John and list

Thanks for testing the new feature.

> >2) The Background
> > color options do not appear to do anything for me, so perhaps need to be
> > removed from the ui, or made functional assuming there is an interest for
> > a background fill behind an ellipse or triangle.

True, the non-functional background color and transparency is a bug. Should be 
fixed in r12204

For uniformity of item handling, I'd like to leave the background / frame 
options for composer shapes. It could however be an option that they are 
transparent white by default.

> > 4) It would be ideal if the user could set opacity for the shape outline
> > and/or fill.

Agreed. I'm going to add that soon. Also I'm planning to make an item for 
arrows in composer soon.

Regards,
Marco




Am Donnerstag, 19. November 2009 19.02:40 schrieb John C. Tull:
> On a similar vein, the new rotation options are very useful also. Perhaps a
>  rotation option could be added for legend items also?
> 
> Cheers,
> John
> 
> On Nov 19, 2009, at 9:18 AM, John C. Tull wrote:
> > Marco,
> >
> > You've been reading my mind. I was thinking of this exact feature
> > yesterday. Thanks for adding this quite helpful function to the
> > ever-improving composer!
> >
> > A couple of quick comments:
> >
> > 1) The Shape outline color and shape fill color are redundant with the
> > Frame color and Background color options if using a rectangle fill. Are
> > the frame and background color options needed at all? 2) The Background
> > color options do not appear to do anything for me, so perhaps need to be
> > removed from the ui, or made functional assuming there is an interest for
> > a background fill behind an ellipse or triangle. 3) The opacity setting
> > is non-functional.
> > 4) It would be ideal if the user could set opacity for the shape outline
> > and/or fill.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> 

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