Hi Jim I cannot reproduce this on my system here (kubuntu 10.04). What os are you using? Also, does the clipping behaviour change if you have all layers in symbology- ng or in old symbology?
Regards, Marco Am Sonntag, 11. Juli 2010, um 00.42:26 schrieb Jim Hammack: > I am using QGIS to display oil spill extents and tropical weather in the > Gulf of Mexico. I've found that since I moved from 1.4.0 to 1.5.0 > (rev 13903) that the clipping behavior has changed, and not in a good > way! (This may have happened much earlier than rev 13903, but I > haven't been keeping up with the latest revisions.) > > It seems now that if any portion of a shapefile falls outside the view, > the entire shapefile is omitted from the display instead of just being > clipped at the edges of the window. > > It's hard to explain so I've posted sample images at > http://gotslack.org/qgis/shapefiles > > oil_zoom_out_again.png shows state boundaries, oil spill extents and > emergency fishing closures. In oil_zoom_out.png the zoom level has > changed, but I did not change the layers at all. You can see that the > emergency fishing closure polygon and several state boundaries were not > plotted. > > In oil_south.png I have panned to show the oils spill extent and the > fishing boundary, but the state boundaries are not plotted. As I pan up > to oil_center.png, state boundaries and the fishing extents are not > plotted because they all fall partially outside the window. Panning up > to oil_north.png shows the oil extent and only one state boundary is > plotted because portions of the other states and the fishing boundary > fall outside the window. > > I don't think this is the behavior we want and I'm hoping that this is > simply a configuration item that I have not been able to find. > > Can anyone confirm that this is the expected behavior? Is there a way > to configure the project such that clipping is performed as it was in > 1.4.0? > > Thanks, > Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- Dr. Marco Hugentobler Sourcepole - Linux & Open Source Solutions Webereistr. 66, CH-8134 Adliswil, Switzerland [email protected] http://www.sourcepole.ch Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
