[Qgis-developer] Adding expressions support for layer's actions

[Alister Hood]

> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:22:51 +0200
> From: Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Adding expressions support for layer's
> 	actions
> To: cavallini at faunalia.it
> Cc: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
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> Hi
> 
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Paolo Cavallini
<cavallini at faunalia.it>
> wrote:
> > Il 08/01/2012 01:24, Giuseppe Sucameli ha scritto:
> >
> >
> >> In addition, should I drop the old behavior (I think it's better,
> but it
> >> breaks
> >> API) or support both them (i.e. adding a version property for
> actions) or
> >> keep the old behavior for compatibility only (adding an option in
> the
> >> settings
> >> dialog)?
> >
> >
> > +1 for the first solution.
> > Also, please note that the interface should be streamlined, avoiding
> the
> > need to apply & update the action, etc.
> >
> 
> Also if you are thinking about actions, it would be nice to have a new
> maptool called 'feature action' that runs an action directly when
> clicking a feature (or maybe pops up an action list when more than one
> action has been defined for a layer). The actions is such cool
> functionality but the number of mouse clicks required makes it too far
> away to be convenient to use.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim

That feature would close http://hub.qgis.org/issues/119

Also see http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4262 and
http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4211 if you're improving actions.


Alister