[Qgis-developer] Dropping the "render" checkbox

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 02/28/2017 08:47 AM, Denis Rouzaud wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a big -1 on this.
> 
> We often use this for digitizing operations such as manual label placement.
> 
> If you have a projects which takes quite some time to render, it is very
> powerful to
> 1. place the canvas at the proper extent
> 2. disable rendering
> 3. move all the labels needed
> 4. re-enable rendering for controlling

Isn't this an issue triggered by clearing the canvas before the next
rendering process has been finished?

If the content (per layer) would only be replaced on the screen, once
the subsequent rendering process has finished, such tasks would also be
possible without using this checkbox.

Matthias