On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 05:26:42PM +0100, Andreas Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Next to being a QGIS user, we are also Autodesk users. One feature I > like in Autodesk which doesn't exist in QGIS is the decoupling of > the logical grouping (our existing nested hierarchies) from the > actual drawing order. > > In Autodesk you have two tabs in the layer tree. One tab is for the > logical grouping, in the other tab you get a flat list of the > drawing order. > > Use case: you want to logically group layers from different media > (say all gaz layers, all water layers, all waste-water layers), but > in the drawing order you first want to draw the polygon features, > then the line features, then the point features. > > Something to discuss in the Zurich meeting? > > Attached is also the relevant part of the GUI in Autodesk. It is > german. The "Gruppen" tab means "Groups", the > "Zeichnungsreihenfolge" tab means "drawing order". > > Do you also think that this decoupling would be useful for upcoming > QGIS versions?
I'll like it ! I want my layers to be grouped by topologies, but the actual things drawn should be in an order which depends on geometry type, not logical group appartenence. --strk; () Free GIS & Flash consultant/developer /\ http://strk.keybit.net/services.html _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
