[Qgis-user] Make selected features dominant in view

[Thayer Young]

Hi Graeme, 
I usually just alter the opacity in the Layer Properties/Symbology window, that makes spotting overlaps easier. Richard's answer is quite useful, but will probably be more difficult to remember, and requires an additional 3 clicks to accomplish.
-Thayer

  1. Re: Make selected features dominant in view (Richard Duivenvoorde)


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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 19:58:08 +0100
From: Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
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Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Make selected features dominant in view
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Hi Graeme,

I do not know an answer, but I checked and it's not that selected items
always would end up on top...

This sounds very reasonable though... and helpfull :-)
If it is not already there, it would make a nice Feature Request!

There is in the Layer Properties/Symbology/Layer Rendering an option to
'Control feature rendering order' ...
Ok, so you can make an  an expression like:

is_selected( $currentfeature )

which then makes your selected features draw last (on top).
You could at least try that.
I'm wondering if that would/could not be default painting behaviour?

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde

On 12/02/2020 17.34, SEGGIE Graeme wrote:
> Is there a way to have selected features dominate in the map view? I
> mean when selected not all selected features of a layer show as yellow
> (default) if there are other features in the same layer above them in
> the drawing order. In Arc – anything selected is always shown as such,
> which is a lot handier for tracking things down spatially, quickly. Am
> wondering if there is a preference that sets this, which I have not
> done.  I know I can create a sub-layer with filtering as an alternative
> to do this, but that seems like more work than it should be.
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