Yes I agree the classify button is a little superfluous now. It was a bit of a oversight on my part. I think we could replace it with a "Freeze Classification" button, or something like that.
Can you open a ticket and assign it to me on hub.qgis.org so I don't forget about it. - Nathan On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Tammo Jan Dijkema <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > Thanks for your reply. We'll switch to manually editing the qml-file for now. > > However, I would say the feature could have been thought through a bit more. > The button 'classify' now seems superfluous, and there is no way to prevent > an update when changing layers. Perhaps the button 'classify' could be > replaced by an option to automatically reclassify. Another option would be to > add a classification scheme 'manual' which copies to the current > classification when selected, but retains its values when changing columns. > > I think there are many users (I know 3 of them in my company) that create > multiple maps with the same classification, so an update would be very > welcome :) > > Tammo Jan > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Nathan Woodrow [mailto:[email protected]] > Verzonden: donderdag 16 augustus 2012 9:49 > Aan: Tammo Jan Dijkema > CC: [email protected] > Onderwerp: Re: [Qgis-user] Symbology: switch off automatic classification > > Hey Tammo, > > This is a feature as having to click classify each time when changing the > values was confusing to users so I changed how it works a while ago. > > Currently there is no way to turn it off. You could save out the qgis qml > file and hand edit it to have the new column. > > - Nathan > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Tammo Jan Dijkema <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I'm using qgis 1.8 to create graduated maps of multiple data columns. >> For this, I use the new symbology implementation, with graduated >> colors. I would like to use one classification for all columns. >> Usually based on Jenks, and tweaked manually. >> >> >> >> In qgis 1.8, when changing the column which is used for the >> classification, the classification is recomputed automatically. This >> is inconvenient, because now I have to enter the ranges for the >> classification for each map I want to make. I expected the >> classification to only be recomputed when I press the button 'Classify'. >> >> >> The workaround I have found is to create my classification, then >> switch to old symbology, which retains the classifcation when I change the >> column. >> >> >> Is this a bug or a feature? And if it's a feature, how can I switch it offf? >> >> >> >> Thanks for your reply. >> >> >> Tammo Jan Dijkema >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
