This new class QgsImageCache is the equivalent of QgsSvgCache
but for raster images.
QgsImageCache stores pre-rendered resampled versions of raster
image files, allowing efficient reuse without incurring the
cost of resampling on every render.
Additionally, it offers the other benefits QgsSvgCache has,
such as thread safety, ability to transparently download remote
images, and support for base64 encoded strings.
Instead of converting binary fields to truncated strings, we instead
store their contents as QByteArray values, allowing the original binary
content to be retrieved.
This allows for plugins and scripts to utilise binary fields,
such as extracting their contents.
Contains utilities for retrieving the geotag from images and
for setting an image's geotag.
Working with geotags (before this class!) is super-annoying
and fiddly and relies on either parsing command line tools
or depending on non-standard Python libraries which are
not available everywhere, and often very difficult for users
on certain platforms to get installed and working correctly.
With this class we have stable methods for geotag getting/setting
which are universally available and can be used safely
by plugins and scripts.
render exterior ring or interior rings
This option is shown whenever a simple line symbol or
marker line symbol is used as part of a fill symbol for
rendering polygons.
The default behavior is to render both interior and exterior
rings, but this new setting allows users to set the symbol
layer to render only for the exterior ring OR only
for interior rings.
This allows for symbolisation which wasn't directly possible
before, such as a marker line with markers for interior
rings angled toward the interior of the polygon.
Sponsored by the German QGIS User Group
Fixes#12652
This new option, available under the "Advanced" button for fill symbols,
allows forcing rendered polygons to follow the standard "right hand
rule" for ring orientation (where exterior ring is clockwise, and
interior rings are all counter-clockwise).
The orientation fix is applied while rendering only, and the original
feature geometry is unchanged.
This allows for creation of fill symbols with consistent appearance,
regardless of the dataset being rendered and the ring orientation
of individual features.
Refs #12652
Forces polygons to follow the right hand rule, in which the area that
is bounded by a polygon is to the right of the boundary. In particular,
the exterior ring is oriented in a clockwise direction and the
interior rings in a counter-clockwise direction.
Sometimes, calling some layout methods, results in sip being inable
to downcast the items to their correct type, resulting only
in a QgsLayoutItem object.
This works around the problem, albeit in an incredibly hacky way.
