[QGIS-Developer] Plugin idea for Editing multiple layers

[Alexandre Neto]

I believe that both plugins haven't been ported to qgis3, right?

I never tried QAD, I will look at it.

Thanks

A sáb, 16/02/2019, 16:30, Thomas Baumann <rdbath.regiodata at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Hello Alexandre,
> for editing/selecting multiple layers I have used the QAD Plugin before.
> For just selecting features from multiple layers there is the
> MultipleLayer Selection-plugin:
>  https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/MultipleLayerSelection/
>
> I think such a tool is indeed very useful.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
> Am Sa., 16. Feb. 2019, 14:54 hat Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com>
> geschrieben:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't do much editing, but recently I needed to edit several layers at
>> the same time. Although I find the digitizing capabilities of QGIS great,
>> the bigger bottleneck I found in terms of productivity was in the selecting
>> tools, because it forces the user to first make the layer active before he
>> can select a feature in it. Editing multiple layers at the same time forces
>> you to repeat that over and over again.
>>
>> So I though it would be nice to create a multi layer selection tool. It
>> would work like the identify tool, selecting the first feature from top to
>> bottom, then it would make the respective layer active, therefore ready for
>> editing.
>>
>> Other options could be added later, like selecting the next and previous
>> feature, or selecting all features from all layer. There could be options
>> to determine which layers can be selected.
>>
>> Two questions:
>> - for users: Anyone finds this useful?
>> - for developers: Being done as a python plugin, will this be to slow if
>> one uses too many layers/features?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alexandre Neto
>>
>>
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