Hi, somebody asked me when using Composer templates in another project, the map item should not be refreshed by default.
Currently if you create a composer template(!) in project A (centered around Europe), and then want to use that template in project B (centered aroudn North-America), you will not see North America when you load the template in project B. You have to do several actions: - click on the MapItem - click 'Set to map canvas extent' - click 'update preview' (hoping you have the Render option active) In the code I found a method: cleanupAfterTemplateRead() https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/src/app/composer/qgscomposer.cpp#L3249 If I call that method in the on_mActionLoadFromTemplate_triggered like this: on_mActionLoadFromTemplate_triggered() { loadTemplate( false ); cleanupAfterTemplateRead(); } the template shows up in the way we think is logical: showing you your map which you are viewing in QGIS. Question: - is this removed by accident, or deliberate? maybe the loading of the templates is changed after adding the atlas functionality? Question 2: - am I the only one who does not like the wording/concepts around composers and templates? There are 'composers' and 'templates'? If I save a composer, what I actually save is a QGIS project? There are 3 menu-items all to open a new composer (always needing an extra 'title' step) etc Isn't the trick that a composer is actually a 'print layout', and that you either save that one in the project (now called a composer then) or as a separate file (then called a template)? Or is a 'composer' actually a print layer with fixed layers/extent etc etc? Not sure if it is easy to make this more clear. Maybe some UI people have an opinion? Otherwise, just ignore this question :-) Regards, Richard Duivenvoorde _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
