[Qgis-developer] Composeur feature

[Marco Hugentobler]

 >Currently this is only possible per label, not for selected text. What 
you ask is a simple "text editor". >Not sure if such components already 
exist in qt? Marco, do you know?

QTextDocument can be used for such functionality. An example in QGIS 
where this class is already used is the text annotation item.

Regards,
Marco

On 13.12.2011 10:28, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi Yves,
>
>> * is it possible to add snapping line in composer. I mean click on
>> the border
>> of the sheet and move a line on the sheet like GIMP or Photoshop.
>
> One can enable a grid and snap to the grid. Would this be sufficient. 
> In addition, there are already alignments of selected objects and 
> absolute positioning at corners and middle points.
>
>
>> * it will be a nice feature to add new page to add new object too big
>> in a new
>> page
>
> not sure what you mean here? Do you mean if f.e. a table is too large 
> it would automatically flow into another page?
>
> I believe this would all result in a reporting tool. A reporting tool 
> would be responsible for automatic line breaks and flows - something 
> like Jasper. People should use Jasper for this purpose and just use 
> the map view from QGIS.
>
>> * edit Text form: do you plan to add more feature like italic, color,
>> bold, in
>> a toolbar for more action on the text?
>
> Currently this is only possible per label, not for selected text. What 
> you ask is a simple "text editor". Not sure if such components already 
> exist in qt? Marco, do you know?
>
>> * is it possible to create an automatic line return for the legend just
>> changing the width of the legend?
>
> do you mean "text flow"/automatic line breaks?
>
> Andreas
>


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