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Sorry, I have created this issue under the wrong category - should be under "Labelling". I cannot change the category. Please amend or, if you prefer, delete this issue and I will recreate it in the right place.

See also, for background: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/32847

That was fast, thank you.

Would this commit be included in the qgis-dev nightly builds of the master (available in the OsGeo4W-setup for Windows Installer)? I have installed the latest (v1.9.0-66), but when I go to Python Console, I get this error:

Failed to open Python console:
exceptions.ImportError: No module named Qsci

I am a newbie at testing code from dev. From the commit link I can't work out which methods etc are now available in Python. Is there somewhere else I should look as well for documentation?

Ian Packham wrote:

I also added the qscintilla package under Libs, but this didn't help.

Try python-qscintilla.

From the commit link I can't work out which methods etc are now available in Python.

I missed the new file in the first commit - that's why Larry mentioned the follow up commit (8898e6b847) which has qgspallabeling.sip.

Sorry, I was looking for it, but I missed your missed commit file. Got the build working OK with python-qscintilla.

Managed to set some attributes of PAL from python, although not tested everything. Setting palyr.labelPerPart = True did not change the labels in a polygon layer, but I also cannot change it via the PalLabelling toolbar and clicking the checkbox. so maybe something else is missing in the underlying code?

I like that this setting is labelPerPart feature is False by default, by the way; in fact I probably don't want to change much for these settings, just being able to switch this PalLabelling on programmatically is very useful.

Ian Packham wrote:

Managed to set some attributes of PAL from python, although not tested everything. Setting palyr.labelPerPart = True did not change the labels in a polygon layer, but I also cannot change it via the PalLabelling toolbar and clicking the checkbox. so maybe something else is missing in the underlying code?

The labelPerPart property refers to features that have multiple parts; so, you wouldn't see any changes to your labeling if the features of the layer (that are valid, visible and being labeled) do not have multiple parts. It's fairly common to have line layers, e.g. roads, with multiple parts per feature.

Larry

The layer I was testing is a MultiPolygon, some of the features have multiple parts, it is a postgres layer and ST_IsValid returns true for the features in question. Loading the same layer in v1.8.0 and checking the "Label every part of multi-part features" checkbox, I get the same label on more than 1 part of the feature. Using the same layer in the dev build and checking the box in the same way, does not change the labelling.

Hi Ian,

Sounds like a bug that may have been caused by some recent code I've added. Please create a new issue (bug) ticket and assign it to me. If you can, provide a sample of your data set that includes single and multi-part features. Also describe which placement options you were using. I suspect the multi-part option does work, but not for the Offset and Around placements. I will look into this ASAP.

Thank you for reporting the issue.

If you have tested the new Python bindings, and they seem to work well, consider closing this issue, if you have the permission to do so; or, I can.

New issue created: #6378. I don't have permissions to close an issue - yet?