[Qgis-developer] [Processing] how to handle selections

[Victor Olaya]

Good catch

I fixed it and now it uses the selected features, regardless of the
config parameter. The change is in 2.18 and master branches

Thanks!

2017-01-18 10:44 GMT+01:00 Bernhard Ströbl <bernhard.stroebl at jena.de>:
> Hi all,
> processing sports the "Save selected features" algorithm. However if in
> processing's options you untick "Use only selected features" the algorithm
> outputs _all_ features of the input layer. Although I know that processing
> works only on selections when the option is ticked IMHO the current
> behaviour is not intuitive: if an algorithm in its name (and help) claims to
> do something with the selected features it should do that _all the time_.
> Opinions?
>
> Background: I opened a PR [1] yesterday for an algorithm that works on
> selected features all the time (won't make sense otherwise) and would like
> processing to be consistent in that respect.
>
> regards
>
> Bernhard
>
> [1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/4011
>
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