[Qgis-developer] Composer redesign

[Nathan Woodrow]

Jamas and Andreas,

I see what you mean.  It is a bit of a pain, not very ideal.

I'll see what I can do to improve this. Can't promise anything yes but I'll
have look anyway.

I suspect a redesign of the legend widget to allow more finer control of
each item is in order.  One thing I have thought of is control what gets
updated when you click update e.g. only update style; only update text;
update style and text.  Things like that.

- Nathan

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:48 PM, James Stott
<James.Stott at npaconsult.co.uk>wrote:

> Nathan that would be really good if you could take a look at whether multi
> line item labels are possible.
>
> That does do it for 2 but it then reverts back to what it was originally
> if you update the layer in the legend doesn’t it or have I missed something?
>
> I want to be able to update all legend items in one go and not have to
> tweak the legend text each time. Clients can be very good at changing the
> styles a lot (even when a map is pretty much finished) and if I update then
> I have to change the text again in the legend. It's very easy to forget to
> make the legend as it was before you updated it to reflect the style change.
>
> Andreas, I use the following workaround for the 'Legend' Title text issue.
>
> 1) Place a rectangle on your composer as the boundary of your legend area.
> 2) Place a legend within the rectangle
> 3) For the legend, delete the text 'Legend'
> 4) On General Options for the legend, set it to have no frame and make it
> completely opaque (slide the opacity slider right to the left).
> 5) Then realign your legend on the composer so that the top item in the
> legend is just below the frame of the rectangle.
>
> This will then make it look like there isn't a gap at the top of the
> legend.
>
> James
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Neumann
> Sent: 06 February 2012 13:38
> To: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Composer redesign
>
> > For 2) I normally just delete the text in the Legend Items tab for
> > each item I don't want to show including layer names or group names.
> >  Does this do what you need? or have I missed something.
>
>  At least with the "Title" you also have to set the font to something
>  really small (1pt), otherwise you would still get an empty row at the
>  top of the legend. This is obvious if you also use a frame around the
>  legend. Event with setting the font-very small you would still get more
>  margin on top of the legend than on the bottom or the sides.
>
>  For the groups or layernames - yes, you can delete them manually. But
>  it would be more handy if one could suppress all of them with a
>  checkbox. Whereas for groups and layers there is a manual workaround,
>  for the "Title" there is no satisfying workaround in my opinion.
>
>  Andreas
>
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