[Qgis-developer] Overview frame in composer

[John C. Tull]

Thanks. I am playing with it now. It took me a couple of tries to see that it required more than one map item. This is a great addition to the composer!

On Jul 13, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Nathan Woodrow wrote:

> You have to have two map frames on your composer. On the the second one
> you select it to be a overview map of the first one.
> 
> The UI might need some better naming to explain this better.
> 
> - Nathan
> 
> Sent from some fancy phone looking thingo
> From: John C. Tull
> Sent: 14/07/2012 1:33 AM
> To: qgis-developer
> Subject: [Qgis-developer] Overview frame in composer
> Hi Marco,
> 
> I don't know if this is a bug or a lack of understanding on this new
> feature. On a map composer item, I want to add the overview frame. I
> can select an overview style, but the "Overview frame" drop-down menu
> only has the "none" option.
> 
> Is there something I need to do to provide an overview choice in that
> drop-down, or is it possible that the list is not being populated on
> my OS X system and it is a bug?
> 
> Let me know what I can do to help debug if it is the latter.
> 
> Cheers,
> John
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