[Qgis-developer] Embedding of layers and legend groups from other projects

[Marco Hugentobler]

Pushed to the main repo now.

Am Dienstag, 7. Juni 2011, 18.48:01 schrieb Marco Hugentobler:
> Hi devs
> 
> Recently, I implemented support for embedding layers and legend groups from
> other project files. Like this, it is no longer necessary to repeat legend
> arrangements. Just embed groups and/or layers from other project files as
> references (Layer->embed layers and groups, then select a project file and
> mark the entities to embed). The reference can be absolute / relative
> depending on the project setting.
> 
> The code is contained in my github clone (git at github.com:mhugent/Quantum-
> GIS.git). I'm planning to do some testing before pushing to the main repo.
> If you have some feedback, let me know.
> 
> One issue that I'm already aware of is the problem to embed several groups
> with the same name. Solution might be to generate a unique group id
> (similarly to the layer id), but this does not work for referencing old
> project files.
> 
> Regards,
> Marco


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