[Qgis-user] Send us your tips!

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Having images in the tips is useful - but it also opens questions:
>
> How do with deal with screenshots of parts of the UI that are done in a
> certain language? Would we only show the english UI, or would we have
> multiple images for multiple languages?
>

I think we should try to avoid the problem in the first place. The
image Alister provided did that in that it included no text. Qt does
have the option of localization its qrc resource files but its not a
good way to  go as it will make the binary massive if we have to
include 30 versions of each image. So we will just be judicious about
what tips we include when there are images involved.

Regards

Tim

> Andreas
>
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 11:59:10 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Going back to the original message, I added the tip with included
>> image (adapted a little). See
>>
>> http://img6.imagebanana.com/img/sbt1n9mj/image03.jpeg
>>
>> Thanks - keep those tips coming!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Martin
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Alister Hood
>>>>> <alister.hood at synergine.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But I think symbol levels should probably be enabled by
>>>>>> default, in which case this tip wouldn't be necessary :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Rendering with symbol levels is more costly, so -1 for me to enable it
>>>>> by default.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I remember debating this with you at Wroclaw. Is it more costly also
>>>> in situations where symbols are simple and have 1 layer each only? In
>>>> the case of multilayer symbols I would say 99% of the time I want
>>>> symbol levels on. I do quite a lot of training and the symbol levels
>>>> is something that a) new users struggle to comprehend and b) gets
>>>> forgotten as a detail after the training and then people come back to
>>>> me asking why their maps look funny. I think from a user friendliness
>>>> point of view, there would be a lot gained by enabling it by default
>>>> (performance issues notwithstanding). Maybe we should add it as
>>>> another item in our endless options panel (which I will reorganise in
>>>> Lisbon)?
>>>
>>> Hi Tim
>>>
>>> yes, it's more costly also for symbols with just one symbol layer. The
>>> idea is that the features in current view are loaded into memory first
>>> (with a reference to symbol that will be used) and then rendered. So
>>> there is some memory overhead and some cpu overhead (unsure about the
>>> total amount). The case with just one symbol layer could be probably
>>> optimized to some degree.
>>>
>>> I am not sure what to do here. The concept of symbol level is quite
>>> advanced and becomes more complex when drawing things like highway
>>> crossing (I still haven't found time to write a blog post explaining
>>> how that could be done). Maybe another topic for upcoming hackfest?
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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