[Qgis-developer] Legend refactoring branch merged

[Tim Sutton]

Hi


On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Tim
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >
> > Another regression / change in behaviour between legend in 2.x and
> master is
> > that layers added in python are not focussed in the legend. This breaks
> some
> > of our InaSAFE stuff that expects this behaviour.
> >
> > Good:
> >
> >
> http://storage8.static.itmages.com/i/14/0604/h_1401898037_8549074_84a270face.png
> >
> > Bad:
> >
> >
> http://storage9.static.itmages.com/i/14/0604/h_1401898084_4943485_004d455ff0.png
>
> I think this behaviour can be added, but maybe it is not a good idea
> to rely on the fact that newly added layer is set as current. The
> behaviour wasn't documented anywhere, so it could be changed without
> any prior notice. Also, there could be various circumstances when this
> assumption may be wrong - e.g. plugins doing changes to the current
> layer. Finally, even in 2.2, if the user enables "Add new layers to
> selected or current group" and the selection is on a group, there will
> be no change of selection, so likely breaking that part of InaSAFE
> code too.
>
> Ok no worries, it is easily enough fixed by doing

iface.setActiveLayer(<layer>)

Thanks

Tim



> Martin
>



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