Thankyou for your reply
I suppose there are potentially many solutions I could look at for my
particular situation, one of those might be writing my own private
plugin which will give me the capability to get a toolbar button from
which it can then call my script if the script code is copied into the
plugin.
Questions are mostly along the lines
- are there any differences in the way a script interacts with a running
application when the script is incorporated into a plugin
- can a custom toolbar or button be added in the Layout window (using
the code example shown for ch16 of the pyqgis cookbook)
- can a script or plugin place a message in the message bar of a Layout
window instead of the main application window
On 29/06/21 7:26 pm, Luigi Pirelli wrote:
Hi Patrick
seems more a question for the developer list where many UX involved
people can give you opinions.
Luigi Pirelli
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 at 05:48, Patrick Dunford <enzedrailm...@gmail.com
<mailto:enzedrailm...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Just have a question here about the use of separate application
windows
for the Qgis application main window and the Layout window. Obviously
the separate layout windows can be multiple in number whereas most of
the time we only need one application main window open.
However for me there is the question of having different toolbars and
panels available in the two different types of window. Whilst they do
fulfill different functions of the application, the crossover between
those functions that is easy to achieve when running a script
somewhat
blurs the merits of separate windows and raises the question of why
panels and toolbars can only be used in one or the other windows
but not
both.
In other words should you have the two distinct types of window or
one
window that can have a combination of panels and toolbars from
anywhere.
Granted that that would be a challenge if implemented to its fullest
extent since most of the panels and toolbars are specific to each
window
type and the canvas would have to become some sort of panel as well.
My view on this is mostly driven by the apparently reasonable
conclusion
that the Python scripting console panel should not be limited to only
being able to be docked to the application main window instead of the
layout window as is currently the case. I have a script that
performs a
layout export to image and I have to keep switching backwards and
forwards between the main window and the layout window to run the
script, which can be for hundreds of export operations in a day. The
script itself reduces the number of mouse clicks needed to run
each of
the individual exports by automatically selecting the layers to
make up
an export in the main window.
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