Make available map extents available as a window that accepts cursor input

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Author Name: springmeyer - (springmeyer -)
Original Redmine Issue: 971

Redmine category:map_canvas

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The "Current Map Scale" window on the lower right of the QGIS application allows for user interaction to set the scale manually.

It would be great to hardcode the "Extents" coordinates in that same location. Currently they appear in the lower left as alternative text when the user is using the map zoom or pan tools.

It seems reasonable to always have them showing, and perhaps they could appear as a toggled item between the coordinates of the cursor location?

The great benefit of having them in a window that accepts text input would be the ability to copy the coordinates to the systems clipboard for use in other programs. The ability to manually set the extents by copying text (likely comma delimited) would be a bonus.

If this switch were made it seems reasonable to me to reduce the precision of the coordinates significantly so that the text output would be much smaller. Reporting the coordinates as long integers like the cursor coordinates would be great.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• fixed_version_id was changed from Version 1.7.4 to Version 2.0.0

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Author Name: Pirmin Kalberer (Pirmin Kalberer)

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• fixed_version_id was changed from Version 2.0.0 to Future Release - Nice to have

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Author Name: Antonio Locandro (Antonio Locandro)

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It seems to be that this is partially enabled? You can toggle Coordinates/Extents so maybe just the precision needs to be updated to match that of coordinates?

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Author Name: Médéric RIBREUX (Médéric RIBREUX)

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Hello, bug triage...

as of QGIS 2.13:

• there is a coordinates/extent lineEdit widget.
• You can copy and paste the extents in the clipboard.
• By default, extent coordinates don't have decimals.

The only thing that is not implemented is the manual modification of the extent.

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Author Name: Médéric RIBREUX (Médéric RIBREUX)

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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