Does anybody have any thought on this?
2016-06-01 10:31 GMT-05:00 Germán Carrillo <[email protected]>: > Hi All, > > what is the purpose of originalName() method in QgsMapLayer class? > > Documentation states: > Get the original name of the layer. > Returns > the original layer name > > Which perhaps isn't clear enough. > > Plugin developers reading the API would generally expect originalName to > preserve the name the layer was given when it was first loaded into QGIS. > And it might be so, except for this line ( > http://qgis.org/api/2.14/qgsmaplayer_8cpp_source.html#l00117) that > modifies the originalName private variable. > > Am I getting it wrong? Is id() supposed to fulfill such requirement? > > Regards, > > Germán > > > 2015-12-08 6:33 GMT-05:00 René-Luc Dhont <[email protected]>: > >> >> >> Le 22/09/2015 13:36, Paolo Cavallini a écrit : >> >>> Il 22/09/2015 13:24, Tom Chadwin ha scritto: >>> >>>> Many apologies - you are right. I change "Layer name", and couldn't >>>> understand what Display as was meant to be: a non-editable text field >>>> which >>>> mirrors Layer name? Why? >>>> >>> agreed, an old issue, I also do not understant its use. >>> all the best. >>> >> >> It's not an issue :-) >> >> In QgsMapLayer there are originalName and name. >> The method setLayerName sets originalName and name. >> The attribute name is the capitalize originalName if the settings >> "/qgis/capitaliseLayerName" is set to True. >> >> In the Layer properties the originalName and Name are displayed and the >> originalName is the editable attribute. >> >> René-Luc >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> [email protected] >> List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > > > -- > ----------- > |\__ > (:>__)( > |/ > Soluciones Geoinformáticas Libres > http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/ > http://twitter.com/GeoTux2 > http://about.me/germancarrillo > > <http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/4972/germ%c3%a1n-carrillo> > -- ----------- |\__ (:>__)( |/ Soluciones Geoinformáticas Libres http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/ http://twitter.com/GeoTux2 http://about.me/germancarrillo <http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/4972/germ%c3%a1n-carrillo>
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