[Qgis-user] Column selection in Styles dialog breaks styles in latest master

[Nathanael Boehm]

Okay thanks Nathan — guess I just didn't notice that behaviour before; will
use rule-based instead otherwise I'm going to end up with 8 OSM layers.

Cheers,

Nathanael Boehm

UX designer specialising in business web & mobile apps

www.purecaffeine.com <http://www.purecaffeine.com/professional/>

Canberra, Australia


On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Nathanael,
>
> The behaviour of the renderer hasn't changed between 1.8 and 2.0. You can
> still add new values by changing the column and pressing classify.  It will
> ask you if you want to delete what is there or add to it.
>
> The renderer will look in the selected column for each value, so if it's
> set to "highway" but you have values like "bikepath" that isn't going to
> match.
>
> You can need to classify based on two columns I would use the rule based
> rendering.
>
> - Nathan
>
>
>
>  On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Nathanael Boehm <nboehm at purecaffeine.com
> > wrote:
>
>>  Am I confused?
>>
>> Just updated to the latest master build this morning and I was working on
>> styling some OpenStreetMap data and it was only applying styles to the
>> values in the Categorised list for the column selected in the drop-down …
>> for example highway, waterway etc … so if I had styles applied to the
>> values of "stream" and "river" and then changed the drop-down to "highways"
>> to add more classifications for footways, roads etc then the waterway
>> styles wouldn't apply.
>>
>> Whilst the fundamental design of the Styles dialog hasn't changed I'm
>> sure that this behaviour is new … that previously the column drop-down
>> wasn't a setting, it was just a precursor to further classifications.
>>
>> That said, I'm a novice user and I haven't touched QGIS in a month so it
>> could just be my memory or that I've never tried to style both waterways
>> and tracks in the one OSM polyline layer …
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Nathanael Boehm
>>
>> UX designer specialising in business web & mobile apps
>>
>> www.purecaffeine.com <http://www.purecaffeine.com/professional/>
>>
>> Canberra, Australia
>>
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