Sets whether changes to the active layer should be temporarily
blocked. Exposes a previously private optimisation for use
by plugins.
This is a low-level method, designed to avoid unnecessary work when adding lots
of layers at once. Clients which will be adding many layers may call blockActiveLayerChanges( TRUE ) upfront,
add all the layers, and then follow up with a call to blockActiveLayerChanges( FALSE ). This will defer emitting
the active layer changed signal until they've added all layers, and only emit the signal once for
the final layer added.
and logic for activating a custom map tool and ensuring it can
only be enabled in the right circumstances to QGIS app
If a plugin has to do this, it's a nightmare of code and hacks (partly
because of the number of changing circumstances it needs to respond
to, and partly because a lot of the useful functions available
for handling this behavior is locked away in private methods
in qgisapp.cpp)
So instead make an abstract base class for map tool handlers and
an iface method for register/unregistering them.
From the dox:
An abstract base class for map tool handlers which automatically handle all the necessary
logic for toggling the map tool and enabling/disabling the associated action
when the QGIS application is in a state permissible for the tool.
Creating these handlers avoids a lot of complex setup code and manual connections
which are otherwise necessary to ensure that a map tool is correctly activated and
deactivated when the state of the QGIS application changes (e.g. when the active
layer is changed, when edit modes are toggled, when other map tools are switched
to, etc).
- ### Example
\code{.py}
class MyMapTool(QgsMapTool):
...
class MyMapToolHandler(QgsAbstractMapToolHandler):
def __init__(self, tool, action):
super().__init__(tool, action)
def isCompatibleWithLayer(self, layer, context):
# this tool can only be activated when an editable vector layer is selected
return isinstance(layer, QgsVectorLayer) and layer.isEditable()
my_tool = MyMapTool()
my_action = QAction('My Map Tool')
my_handler = MyMapToolHandler(my_tool, my_action)
iface.registerMapToolHandler(my_handler)
\endcode
Any actions added by plugins for toggling a map tool should also
be added to this action group so that they behave identically
to the native, in-built map tool actions.
the QGIS application from exiting
This interface allows plugins to implement custom logic to determine whether it is safe
for the application to exit, e.g. by checking whether the plugin or script has any
unsaved changes which should be saved or discarded before allowing QGIS to exit.
