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nilsnolde / valhalla-qgis-plugin

QGIS plugin to use Valhalla for routing, isochrones and matrices.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Valhalla pop-up window as a window #3

Closed sanderpukk closed 3 years ago

sanderpukk commented 3 years ago

Hi!

Would it be possible to make the Valhalla pop-up as window? Right now it disappears somewhere behind and is not ALT+TAB-able nor clickable from taskbar. You have to find it behind stuff or click again from Web-> Valhalla.

nilsnolde commented 3 years ago

pop-up as window

what is that? This is what it looks like on linux (no idea about other OSs): image

You do need to have the "Web" toolbar enabled. However, it's very possible that it's not working the same cross-platform, which would seriously suck (don't have the time checking all OSs).

What does it look like for you then?

nilsnolde commented 3 years ago

Also, on Linux, the window always stays on top of the main QGIS window. I thought about making it a dockable window, but then that would require the UI to change a lot as right now it can be really huge vertically if all dropdowns are un-collapsed.

sanderpukk commented 3 years ago

I looked over other plugins and native toolboxes. I kind of remembered falsely that they are a separated windows that can be alt+tab and clickable on taskbar.

My example is if you open the attribute table on some layer, it's a different entity that's opened.

nilsnolde commented 3 years ago

Ah right. Ok, that's not the case here, true. It's because attribute tables don't have a parent window, this plugin does (the main QGIS window). Bit of a style thing I guess. When you do the other approach, the plugin window disappears behind the main window when you click into the QGIS main window. And that annoys me to no end ;)

sanderpukk commented 3 years ago

Yeah, that's why I posted here :D I guess that's the native approach in QGIS. I usually only use QGIS for visualization and the actual work is done in PostGIS. I definitely admit my mistake :)