Class: QgsAnnotationItemRegistry¶

Registry of available annotation item types.

QgsAnnotationItemRegistry is not usually directly created, but rather accessed through QgsApplication.annotationItemRegistry().

A companion class, QgsAnnotationItemGuiRegistry, handles the GUI behavior of annotation items.

Added in version 3.16.

Class Hierarchy¶

Methods

`addItemType`	Registers a new annotation item type.
`createItem`	Creates a new instance of a annotation item given the item type.
`itemMetadata`	Returns the metadata for the specified item type.
`itemTypes`	Returns a map of available item types to translated name.
`populate`	Populates the registry with standard item types.

Signals

Emitted whenever a new item type is added to the registry, with the specified type and visible name.

class qgis.core.QgsAnnotationItemRegistry[source]¶

Bases: QObject

__init__(parent: QObject | None = None)

Creates a new empty item registry.

QgsAnnotationItemRegistry is not usually directly created, but rather accessed through QgsApplication.annotationItemRegistry().

See also

addItemType(self, metadata: QgsAnnotationItemAbstractMetadata | None) → bool[source]¶

Registers a new annotation item type. Takes ownership of the metadata instance.

createItem(self, type: str | None) → QgsAnnotationItem | None[source]¶

Creates a new instance of a annotation item given the item type.

itemMetadata(self, type: str | None) → QgsAnnotationItemAbstractMetadata | None[source]¶

Returns the metadata for the specified item type. Returns None if a corresponding type was not found in the registry.

itemTypes(self) → Dict[str, str]¶

Returns a map of available item types to translated name.

populate(self) → bool[source]¶

Populates the registry with standard item types. If called on a non-empty registry then this will have no effect and will return False.

signal typeAdded(type: str, name: str)[source]¶

Emitted whenever a new item type is added to the registry, with the specified type and visible name.

Parameters: