[Qgis-user] Select several layers at once?

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 07:45 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 02:23 +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 17:14 -0800, Alex Mandel wrote:
> > > Nikos Alexandris wrote:
[...]
> > > > And I can't find any "layer selection" tool on the menu.
[...]

> In theory a 'group maker' plugin could be created to do this. The
> reason we dont support multiselection in the legend is that some
> tools / functions refer to the currently selected legend item and we
> need to write appropriate routines to manage cases where more than one
> layer is highlighted. This is mostly just legwork, but its not on the
> cards for 1.0.0 since we are in feature freeze. Be sure to add it as
> an enhancement request in the bug queue.

I'll take some time in the next days to sum-up and create some new
tickets :-)
[...]

> > > I agree it would be a good feaure.
> > > A quick hack for now might be to save the project and edit the
> project file in a text editor. Make an example and compare on a small
> set of files. Note - It's only a guess at a hack.
> > > Alex

It worked! Thanks to all.


> > Furthermore,
> > wasn't there (back in earlier QGIS versions) a "duplicate layer"
> option in the "right-click" menu on (at least) vector layer? Why
> should I need to (re)load a shapefile for instance if I want to
> compare various symbology settings?

> I cant recall us ever having that feature but once again should not be
> difficult to implement at some stage post 1.0.0.

Sorry, my memory would like it to have been so :-)

> Regards
> Tim

Nikos