On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:13:03AM +0000, Duarte Carreira wrote:
> The group checkbox, imho, should *not always* switch children on/off. You 
> should have a modifier to get this as a secondary behavior, like pressing the 
> ctrl key when (un)checking the group checkbox. The primary behavior of the 
> group switch should be to make the children invisible or visible, regardless 
> of the children's visibility being on or off.
> 
> In the primary behavior when the parent is turned OFF, the children are not 
> drawn but retain their checked or uncheck status.
> If you use the secondary behavior then unchecking the parent will uncheck the 
> children. Same would apply when checking the parent on.

Agreed, sounds like a sensible behavior to me.

--strk;

> De: aperi2007 [mailto:[email protected]]
> Enviada: quinta-feira, 10 de Outubro de 2013 12:59
> Para: [email protected]
> Assunto: Re: [Qgis-developer] Reliable way to determine a groupIndex in the 
> legend tree
> 
> I guess instead that much better should be a group checkbox that 
> enable/disable the under childs layer.
> 
> This allow OFF the actual configuration or ON that same configuration.
> Actually the group checkbox when checked put ON all the layer.
> This often is mean too much information .
> 
> Instead the mutual exclusive need to choose only one.
> And in that case disable and ri-enable will reput the same original clayer.
> 
> Andrea.
> 
> 
> On 10/10/2013 10:08, Vincent Schut wrote:
> On 10/09/2013 11:41 PM, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Personally, I am also interested in enhancing group options in the layer
> tree. Groups are not just stupid containers with only toggling of
> visibility. They could also have a group opacity and blending and group
> metadata. Later on we may also have clipping and masking on groups. So
> we really should have an extensible mechanism for groups as new group
> features appear.
> 
> One thing I'd love to see is the ability to make the layers in a group 
> "mutually exclusive". (ie, imagine radio buttons instead of checkboxes for 
> controlling the visibility of layers within that group). I find I'm often 
> going through a process of switching one layer on, then switching a bunch of 
> other layers off for comparison purposes. A mutually exclusive layer group 
> which automatically switched the other child layers off when I select a layer 
> would make this process much nicer!
> 
> +1 for this feature from a frequent user!
> 
> Best,
> Vincent.
> 
> 
> Nyall
> 
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