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edited Mar 10, 2015 at 21:57

in your case qgis.utils.iface.activeLayer() return the last selected one. To obtain selected layers use the ability of the TreeView that contain the layer list. More directly:

iface.layerTreeRootlayerTreeView().selectedLayers()

more detail exploring the class QgsLayerTreeView:

http://qgis.org/api/classQgsLayerTreeView.html

obviously this work after legend refactoring => qgis >= 2.6

in your case qgis.utils.iface.activeLayer() return the last selected one. To obtain selected layers use the ability of the TreeView that contain the layer list. More directly:

iface.layerTreeRoot().selectedLayers()

more detail exploring the class QgsLayerTreeView:

http://qgis.org/api/classQgsLayerTreeView.html

obviously this work after legend refactoring => qgis >= 2.6

in your case qgis.utils.iface.activeLayer() return the last selected one. To obtain selected layers use the ability of the TreeView that contain the layer list. More directly:

iface.layerTreeView().selectedLayers()

more detail exploring the class QgsLayerTreeView:

http://qgis.org/api/classQgsLayerTreeView.html

obviously this work after legend refactoring => qgis >= 2.6

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created Mar 5, 2015 at 22:23

Luigi Pirelli

in your case qgis.utils.iface.activeLayer() return the last selected one. To obtain selected layers use the ability of the TreeView that contain the layer list. More directly:

iface.layerTreeRoot().selectedLayers()

more detail exploring the class QgsLayerTreeView:

http://qgis.org/api/classQgsLayerTreeView.html

obviously this work after legend refactoring => qgis >= 2.6