Bug report #19816
Parameter label "Expression" is not meaningful
| Status: | Open | ||
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| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: | - | ||
| Category: | Processing/GUI | ||
| Affected QGIS version: | 3.3(master) | Regression?: | No |
| Operating System: | Easy fix?: | No | |
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | |
| Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | No | Copied to github as #: | 27640 |
Description
The "Random points inside polygons" algorithm provides a parameter named "Expression" which imho does not help to know what user is supposed to fill in. A more verbose label would be handy (i notice that in the user manual docs, this parameter is called "Number or density of points" and as I suppose we do not invent it, i'd bet for some changes that later hide/remove that label and maybe it's not the only one affected)
History
#1
Updated by Nyall Dawson about 6 years ago
Looks like it's evaluated and used as either the "number of points" or "density of points".
This is unfortunate -- I wish we'd caught this before 3.0. That parameter should be replaced by a normal "numeric" parameter, with a data-defined control for entering expressions.