We have talked a lot with Nyall about this. It was a requirement for a work I was developing some months ago (it's what I was describing some emails ago in this thead). I suppose the work Nyall is talking about is the deep refactoring of the Composer which will converge in the Report engine (QGIS > 3.x), is it right?
giovanni 2015-08-08 11:19 GMT+02:00 Nyall Dawson <nyall.daw...@gmail.com>: > > On 7 Aug 2015 6:58 pm, "Vincent Mora" <vincent.m...@oslandia.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I need to add graphs generated by a plugin to compositions. I'm > considering to develop a PluginComposerItem in the same spirit as > PluginLayers, adding/removing a button in the toolbar when the plugin is > registered/removed. > > Just a warning that similar work is already underway - adding a composer > item type registry so that plugins can register their own custom item > types. > > It's an extensive work though, because composer has a lot of hard coded > handling of all the existing item types (checkout all the item specific > methods in QgsComposition/QgsComposerView). That's why this work is tied up > with the layouts/reporting framework refactor. > > Nyall > > > > > Is that what was needed in your cases, or was a more general approach > required (like the qgis plugin mechanism, being able to access the > interface) ? > > > > V. > > > > > > Le 22/06/2015 18:05, G. Allegri a écrit : > >> > >> The suggestion from John is exactly what we did too. And we also built > a chart composer... > >> > >> It would be great to have the means to know what other teams are > working to. It would save a lor of time and money and, probably, get better > software from a shared effort ;) > >> > >> giovanni > >> > >> Il 22/giu/2015 19:31, "John Gitau" <gka...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > >>> > >>> Hi Jakob, > >>> > >>> A workaround would be to have a plugin that creates a new composer > view object: > >>> > >>> custom_composer = self.iface.createNewComposer("My Composer") > >>> > >>> Then get a reference to the main window in the composer view: > >>> > >>> main_window = custom_composer.composerWindow() > >>> > >>> Then you can either add a new toolbar (and required actions) or append > an action to the main toolbar. Have a look at the ComposerWrapper class for > something similar we implemented for designing charts in the composer: > https://gist.github.com/gkahiu/06a43a589f9441736397 > >>> > >>> Hope this is helpful. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> John > >>> > >>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 2:07 PM, G. Allegri <gioha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> You can act on it but you can't custom gui widgets to the Composer > interface. > >>>> I cannot check the code right know. I listen to a specific (existing) > composition opening but if I remember correctly you can watch the Composer > opening too. > >>>> > >>>> Il 22/giu/2015 17:19, "Jakob Lanstorp" <jlanst...@gmail.com> ha > scritto: > >>>>> > >>>>> Hi Giovanni, thanks for the update. Another solution would be to > catch the > >>>>> event when a user starts an existing print composer. Cannot in doc > for the > >>>>> pyqgis API find anything for this. Anyone who know is one can > listens for a > >>>>> print composer to startup by the user and act on it. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> ----- > >>>>> Jakob Lanstorp > >>>>> -- > >>>>> View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Building-plugin-for-Print-Composer-tp5212187p5212221.html > >>>>> Sent from the Quantum GIS - Developer mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> Qgis-developer mailing list > >>>>> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > >>>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Qgis-developer mailing list > >>>> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > >>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Qgis-developer mailing list > >>> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Qgis-developer mailing list > >> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Qgis-developer mailing list > > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > -- Giovanni Allegri http://about.me/giovanniallegri Gis3W - http://gis3w.it Ikare - http://ikare.it Twitter: https://twitter.com/_giohappy_ blog: http://blog.spaziogis.it GEO+ geomatica in Italia http://bit.ly/GEOplus
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