[Qgis-developer] QEP about Multimap support for QGIS

[Filipe Dias]

Hi,
Really nice feature in my opinion. Out of curiosity: would it be possible
to split Map 1 and Map 2 between two different screens? It would be really
nice to be able to drag Map 2's window to a second screen.
Thanks
Cheers


On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 2:36 AM, A Huarte <ahuarte47 at yahoo.es> wrote:

> Hi devs, I have developed an experimental code to support more than one
> map in QGIS. I created a video showing the features implemented (
> https://vimeo.com/179982647 ).
>
> The main features are:
>
>
>    - New user option to enable multi map canvas mode.
>    - QGIS has one no closeable default map, and 0-N extra dockable maps.
>    - Full integration of maps in legend using a new map legend node for
>    each map.
>    - Print composer supports layouts with different maps.
>    - New legend menu option to synchronize the extent of maps.
>    - Map tools and plugins work with the current selected map (The
>    signals and slots to the map canvas are updated with an automatic mechanism
>    of synchronization to minimize the migration of code and to preserve
>    behavior).
>
>
> I'm aware that this is a big change in QGIS, and I am sure that this
> capability must be debated by many people (project and developer
> leaders...) before writing any code. Because of that, I have not created
> any QEP entry in the https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals
> page.
>
> I developed it to learn QGIS core and it will have work to do (plugins and
> tools). But it runs fine, and it was funny :-). If at least, it is useful
> for a day to implement this capability in QGIS or to see the amount of
> changes needed, I am satisfied.
>
>
>
> github:
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/compare/master...ahuarte47:
> Feature_MultimapView
>
> video:
> Multi Map Canvas for QGIS
>
>
> [image: image]
>
>
>
>
>
> Multi Map Canvas for QGIS
> Ver en vimeo.com
> Vista previa por Yahoo
>
>
>
>
> Comments are welcome!
>
> Best regards
> Alvaro Huarte - https://github.com/ahuarte47
>
>
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