[Marble-devel] How to know when all tiles/data needed for rendering are available?

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Hi Torsten,

Am Dienstag, 20. März 2012, 15:38:03 schrieb Torsten Rahn:
> Hi Friedrich,
> 
> You are touching a topic there that has been on the TODO since long.
> 
> It would be great if we had multiple dpi support.
> 
> As mentioned already using the tiles from higher zoom levels to create a
> high resolution crisp map would only work for map themes without labels
> (e.g. the satellite map). But it would be great if it would work for those
> cases (and maybe get scaled instead for maps like the openstreetmap map
> theme).
> 
> But as you figured already there are lots of other things rendered by Marble
> that would hugely benefit from dpi-support: Text Labels for GeoData
> objects, Coordinate lines, All kinds of vector data displayed on the map,
> etc. It would be cool if there was at least some initial rudimentary
> support there.

Okay, so I did not overlook something related to DPI.

But back to my initial question:

So is there currently no way to trigger and check if all tiles/data needed for 
rendering are locally available?

> This is your chance to become the Hero of the Marble 1.4 release ;-)

Too busy to become the Hero in other places currently ;)

Cheers
Friedrich