[Qgis-user] plugin integration/interaction with layout window?

[Patrick Dunford]

Thankyou for your reply

I suppose there are potentially many solutions I could look at for my 
particular situation, one of those might be writing my own private 
plugin which will give me the capability to get a toolbar button from 
which it can then call my script if the script code is copied into the 
plugin.

Questions are mostly along the lines

- are there any differences in the way a script interacts with a running 
application when the script is incorporated into a plugin

- can a custom toolbar or button be added in the Layout window (using 
the code example shown for ch16 of the pyqgis cookbook)

- can a script or plugin place a message in the message bar of a Layout 
window instead of the main application window

On 29/06/21 7:26 pm, Luigi Pirelli wrote:
> Hi Patrick
>
> seems more a question for the developer list where many UX involved 
> people can give you opinions.
>
> Luigi Pirelli
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> On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 at 05:48, Patrick Dunford <enzedrailmaps at gmail.com 
> <mailto:enzedrailmaps at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Just have a question here about the use of separate application
>     windows
>     for the Qgis application main window and the Layout window. Obviously
>     the separate layout windows can be multiple in number whereas most of
>     the time we only need one application main window open.
>
>     However for me there is the question of having different toolbars and
>     panels available in the two different types of window. Whilst they do
>     fulfill different functions of the application, the crossover between
>     those functions that is easy to achieve when running a script
>     somewhat
>     blurs the merits of separate windows and raises the question of why
>     panels and toolbars can only be used in one or the other windows
>     but not
>     both.
>
>     In other words should you have the two distinct types of window or
>     one
>     window that can have a combination of panels and toolbars from
>     anywhere.
>     Granted that that would be a challenge if implemented to its fullest
>     extent since most of the panels and toolbars are specific to each
>     window
>     type and the canvas would have to become some sort of panel as well.
>
>     My view on this is mostly driven by the apparently reasonable
>     conclusion
>     that the Python scripting console panel should not be limited to only
>     being able to be docked to the application main window instead of the
>     layout window as is currently the case. I have a script that
>     performs a
>     layout export to image and I have to keep switching backwards and
>     forwards between the main window and the layout window to run the
>     script, which can be for hundreds of export operations in a day. The
>     script itself reduces the number of mouse clicks needed to run
>     each of
>     the individual exports by automatically selecting the layers to
>     make up
>     an export in the main window.
>
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