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qgis.utils.iface.activeLayer() accesses the current active layer, but I would like to get all checked layers in the QGIS ToC.

How can I do it?

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This would be enough:

iface.mapCanvas().layers()
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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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  • I tried layers = qgis.utils.iface.layerTreeRoot().selectedLayers() but I get en error "QgisInterface object has no attribute layerTreeRoot"
    – swooders
    Commented Mar 10, 2015 at 17:23
  • sorry I erroneously wrote the wrong method... it is layerTreeView that can be simply read from QgisInterface documentation.
    – Luigi Pirelli
    Commented Mar 10, 2015 at 21:58
  • Sorry I actually meant the layers that were checked (not selected). I apologize for being unclear in the question - is there a method that gets the layers with checked boxes?
    – swooders
    Commented Mar 11, 2015 at 20:29

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