specific numeric format objects
E.g. this allows users to set a specific thousand grouping character
to use for a particular scalebar number labels. Useful in the case of
creating maps for users outside of the current locale. Default is
always to use the QGIS locale character (this is an advanced setting!)
and profile options
The Settings - Options - Map Tools tab contains a new setting for
controlling the default format to use for displaying angular bearings for
newly created projects. Whenever a new project is created, it will
inherit this default settings.
The Project Properties dialog also has a new setting for the project-specific
bearing format.
The intention is that whenever angular bearings are shown in QGIS,
they will be formatted using the current project's bearing format
settings.
This class contains a variety of default setting values. These values are local, profile
specific settings which may have been configured or tweaked by the user (as opposed to
global, fixed default settings).
The values encapsulated here should be inherited when creating new objects such as new
QGIS projects.
Typically, the QgsSettings backend is used to store and retrieve these local settings.
The intention here is to provide stable, structured and easily discoverable
methods for setting and retrieve these settings, rather than forcing raw QSetting
handling.
QgsNumericFormat subclasses provide a means to format a numeric value
as a string, applying various formatting options. E.g. a default
string to value formatter (included here) includes settings for
controlling the number of decimal places, whether a thousands separator
should be shown, whether a leading + sign should be shown, whether
trailing zeros should be shown.
This PR also includes a formatter for bearings, allowing various
formats of numeric bearings to be applied (e.g. control over decimal
places, etc + control over whether direction E/W suffixes are shown,
or whether values should be limited to either the +/- 180 range or
0-360 degree range)
When formatting values, a QgsNumericFormatContext class is used
to provide context. Currently, this includes the thousands and
decimal separators to apply when formatting (which are taken by
default from the user's locale).
A registry of formatters is included to allow easy addition of
other formats in future (e.g. currencies, percentages, scientific
notation, etc...) and to allow plugin based formats.
The intention is to follow this up with gui configuration widgets
for the formats, and then expose them in various places through
the qgis ui (e.g. in the range editor widget for fields, in scalebar
numbers, as an option for formatting numeric labels, etc)
