Is it possible to have a transparency slider shown by default in the Layer window, i.e. directly after adding a new layer, instead of having it to enable for each layer manually via layer-properties?
This was briefly mentioned in QGIS - Developer forum where you need to use QgsMapLayer::setCustomPropertylayer to enable the embedded widget for your layer. We can then add an itemAdded event so that whenever a layer is added, it will automatically be shown with the transparency widget.
So you could use something like the following in the Python Console:
def transparency_slider():
for layer in QgsMapLayerRegistry.instance().mapLayers().values():
if layer.customProperty("embeddedWidgets/count") != 1 or layer.customProperty("embeddedWidgets/0/id") != u'transparency':
layer.setCustomProperty("embeddedWidgets/count", 1)
layer.setCustomProperty("embeddedWidgets/0/id", "transparency")
else:
pass
qgis.utils.iface.legendInterface().refreshLayerSymbology(layer)
# Connect "itemAdded" event to "transparency_slider" function
legend = qgis.utils.iface.legendInterface()
legend.itemAdded.connect(transparency_slider)
Tested on QGIS 2.18.3 for Win7 64-bit.
Example:
Inserting code into python console and before adding shapefiles:
Result:
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That's fantastic! How do you then turn that off if you want to bring in subsequent vector layers without the transparency slider? – Martin Hügi Mar 17 '17 at 12:29
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1@MartinHügi - You can just type
legend.itemAdded.disconnect(transparency_slider)in the python console ;) – Joseph Mar 17 '17 at 12:35 -
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1Excellent script! Is there a way to keep this even when restarting QGIS or do you have to perform the script on every restart? – blabbath Mar 19 '17 at 14:43
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@poellinf - As described in this post: Is there a way to run a python script on opening a QGIS project?, you can make either a startup.py script (which runs the script everytime QGIS starts up) or make a project macro (which runs only on your project). Using either method, you will need to add
import qgis;from qgis.core import QgsMapLayerRegistryin your script :) – Joseph Mar 20 '17 at 10:30
There is a plugin called Raster Transparency, that as the name suggests, will open a dockable panel with sliders for changing the transparency of a selected raster layer.
Go to Plugins > Manage and install plugins - Find it and install, a new associated icon will appear on your toolbars.
answered Mar 16 '17 at 16:10
