[Qgis-user] Properties Questions

[David J. Bakeman]

Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> David J. Bakeman wrote:
>> I have several shapefiles with similar data that I'd like to display 
>> with the same Symbology.  When I installed 0.11 I thought I had the 
>> ability using the save and load Style but it appears to save the data 
>> information and so when you load it it just reloads whatever you were 
>> displaying before instead of displaying the new shape with the same 
>> symbology.  Is this the way it's supposed to work?
>
> Hi David,
> I'm trying here both 0.11 and 1.0preview on windows. You are right, 
> the qml style file contains path to the data which is was defined, but 
> if I load another shapefile and apply the style to it, it is not 
> opening the 'old' shapefile for me.
>
> Are you sure it's opening your datafile which you used to define the 
> qml file?
You are correct it's not opening the old file.
>
> I do see a small bug though: the symboloy in the legend-panel isn't 
> updated....
This is actually and big bug because when you turn off that entry then 
turn it on it's gone!  Also if you try to remove it qgis crashes!
I'm going to check trac to see if this bug is there.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>