[Qgis-developer] extensions to postgis dialog

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Gavin,

I cannot find this mail in my mailbox or in the developer list archives. I 
somehow must have overlooked it in the tons of mails over new years days. 
Sorry for that, could you resend the mail?

Regards,
Marco

Am Dienstag 08 Januar 2008 22:53:34 schrieb Gavin Macaulay:
> I had a look at and sent off a reply. Did you see it? It had some comments
> and suggestions.
>
> Gavin
>
> >Best regards,
> >Marco
> >
> >
> >-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >Von: godofredo contreras [mailto:frdcn at hotmail.com]
> >Gesendet: Di 08.01.2008 20:58
> >An: Hugentobler  Marco
> >Cc: qgis-developer at lists.qgis.org
> >Betreff: RE: [Qgis-developer] extensions to postgis dialog
> >
> >
> >Hi Marco:
> >
> >I was looking into your patch for postgis dialog and I noticed that in
> > qgsdbsourceselectbase.ui the encoding combobox is missing. It wont be
> > used anymore?
> >
> >Regards
> >Godofredo Contreras
> >
> >> From: marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch
> >> To: qgis-developer at lists.qgis.org
> >> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:43:16 +0100
> >> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] extensions to postgis dialog
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Here is the patch that adds a tree view and options for table search to
> >> the postgis dialog. Please test it and report bugs and/or comments.
> >>
> >> There are two new classes derived from Qt model in this patch. One is
> >> the base model and the second one a proxy model that adds the capability
> >> of filtering according to wildcard or regexp.
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> Marco
> >>
> >> Am Freitag 14 Dezember 2007 13:44:12 schrieb Marco Hugentobler:
> >> > Hi Godofredo and Tim,
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for your feedback. So I'll make a patch for svn head with the
> >> > proposed extensions.
> >> >
> >> > > Could I suggest using Qt model/view for this - whever list become
> >> > > lone I think the model / view approach will always be more
> >> > > efficient. It also has QSortFilterProxModel by which you can easily
> >> > > add sorting and filtering.
> >> >
> >> > This is a good idea. QSortFilterProxModel will certainly help me with
> >> > filtering.
> >> > Reading through the Qt documentation, the model/view concept seems to
> >> > be a very flexible way of accessing and displaying data. In a way, the
> >> > qgis vector data provider is also a model.
> >> >
> >> > > I was going to suggest also that we create src/models and src/views
> >> > > for any custom models and views we create.
> >> >
> >> > As models are always non-gui related and views are dialogs, would it
> >> > make sense to have src/core/models and src/app/views?
> >> >
> >> > >I think is a good idea, but how could we deal with databases that
> >> > > don´t use schemas
> >> > >like mysql? maybe in this case we could place all tables into public
> >> > > schema.
> >> >
> >> > Also possible would be to introduce a schema name "" (empty string)
> >> > or "default". I suppose you just ignore the schema name when accessing
> >> > mysql databases?
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Marco
> >> >
> >> > On Thursday 13 December 2007 17:03:20 Tim Sutton wrote:
> >> > > Hi
> >> > >
> >> > > Could I suggest using Qt model/view for this - whever list become
> >> > > lone I think the model / view approach will always be more
> >> > > efficient. It also has QSortFilterProxModel by which you can easily
> >> > > add sorting and filtering.
> >> > >
> >> > > http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/qsortfilterproxymodel.html#details
> >> > >
> >> > > I was going to suggest also that we create src/models and src/views
> >> > > for any custom models and views we create.
> >> > >
> >> > > Regards
> >> > >
> >> > > Tim
> >> > >
> >> > > 2007/12/13, Hugentobler  Marco 
<marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch>:
> >> > > > Hi,
> >> > > >
> >> > > > The list of tables in the postgis connection dialog may become
> >> > > > quite long for users that have a lot of tables and views. I
> >> > > > therefore would like the following extensions:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > -Convert the table widget to a tree widget. For every schema,
> >> > > > there would an item that can be expanded/collapsed and contains
> >> > > > the tables/views of the schema. Like this, there will be much
> >> > > > better overview in situations with many schemas/tables/views.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > -Add a line edit that takes regular expressions and, if not empty,
> >> > > > displays only the entries where the table name matches the regular
> >> > > > expression.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Are there any objections or suggestions to this?
> >> > > > Godofredo, does this fit together with the work you are doing in
> >> > > > the ogr-plugin-branch and shall I code the dialog extensions also
> >> > > > into this branch?
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Regards,
> >> > > > Marco
> >> > > >
> >> > > >
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> >> --
> >> Dr. Marco Hugentobler
> >> Institute of Cartography
> >> ETH Zurich
> >> Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee
> >
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Dr. Marco Hugentobler
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee