On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 02:22, Raymond Nijssen <r.nijs...@terglobo.nl> wrote: > > By the way, the fragile code solution does not work for me. It does > toggle the button but it does not activate the atlas preview.
Ok - I've done the proper approach in https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/8170/files (I've also exposed an API call to show the item properties for a particular item) Let me know if there's anything else you think should be exposed from the designer to the designer API. Nyall > > # open layout > designer = iface.openLayoutDesigner(layout) > > # turn on atlas preview mode > lo_view = designer.view() > lo_window = lo_view.window() > action = lo_window.findChild(QAction, 'mActionAtlasPreview') > action.toggle() > > > On 11-10-18 16:51, Raymond Nijssen wrote: > > Hi Nyall, > > > > It sounded great and I spent some hours on that better approach, but I > > didn't succeed. So maybe 3.6 will have it... > > > > Tnx! > > Raymond > > > > > > On 25-09-18 23:57, Nyall Dawson wrote: > >> On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 22:36, Raymond Nijssen <r.nijs...@terglobo.nl> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> 1. Can I open a layout window with a python command? > >> > >> designer = iface.openLayoutDesigner( layout ) > >> > >>> 2. Can I turn on "atlas preview" with a python command? > >> > >> You'd have to do some fragile code to do this. Basically: > >> > >> - get designer window from designer.view()'s parent window > >> - find the mActionAtlasPreview child action in the window > >> - manually toggle it on > >> > >> This should work, but isn't stable API - so is likely to break ;) > >> > >> A better approach is to (quickly, before 3.4 final!) file a PR > >> exposing the toggle atlas preview behavior to > >> QgsLayoutDesignerInterface. Then you'll be able to just do: > >> > >> designer = iface.openLayoutDesigner( layout ) > >> designer.toggleAtlasPreview( True ) > >> > >> Nyall > >> > >> > >> Hope anyone knows! > >>> > >>> Kind regards, > >>> Raymond > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> QGIS-Developer mailing list > >>> QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org > >>> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
