Forwarded from user list: Actual question: "Why are selected features not always painted on top"?
Question to dev's: is the 'control feature rendering' heavy in resources? Else: would it be possible to always render the selection on top, in the same way as shown below? Is it worth a feature request? Or does it slow down painting to much? Regards, Richard Duivenvoorde On 13/02/2020 10.46, SEGGIE Graeme wrote: > Brilliant, thanks Richard - that works perfectly. As you say would be good if > was default, but not too onerous and perhaps speeds up rendering to not have > it doing so for every layer etc. > > Graeme. > > > Hi Graeme, > > I do not know an answer, but I checked and it's not that selected items > always would end up on top... > > This sounds very reasonable though... and helpfull :-) If it is not already > there, it would make a nice Feature Request! > > There is in the Layer Properties/Symbology/Layer Rendering an option to > 'Control feature rendering order' ... > Ok, so you can make an an expression like: > > is_selected( $currentfeature ) > > which then makes your selected features draw last (on top). > You could at least try that. > I'm wondering if that would/could not be default painting behaviour? > > Regards, > > Richard Duivenvoorde > > On 12/02/2020 17.34, SEGGIE Graeme wrote: >> Is there a way to have selected features dominate in the map view? I >> mean when selected not all selected features of a layer show as yellow >> (default) if there are other features in the same layer above them in >> the drawing order. In Arc – anything selected is always shown as such, >> which is a lot handier for tracking things down spatially, quickly. Am >> wondering if there is a preference that sets this, which I have not >> done. I know I can create a sub-layer with filtering as an >> alternative to do this, but that seems like more work than it should be. >> >> Graeme _______________________________________________ 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
