[GRASS5] 5.7: v.in.ogr gui: cannot chose OGR datasource directory by browsing

[Michael Barton]

I agree with Markus. A button to autopaste most of the information is much
better than having to type all of it.

Michael


On 8/18/04 2:59 AM, "Markus Neteler" <neteler at itc.it> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:55:58AM +0200, Radim Blazek wrote:
>> On Wednesday 18 August 2004 11:27, Markus Neteler wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:04:51AM +0200, Moritz Lennert wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> In the gui windows for v.in.ogr, I don't seem to be able to chose a
>>>> directory for the OGR datasource name when using the browse button. It
>>>> seems to be a browse dialogue for opening a file, and finding not a
>>>> directory name.
>>>> 
>>>> When I enter the directory manually everything works perfectly fine.
>>> 
>>> I selected this variant as I am not aware of any combined
>>> file/directory selector. Of course an improvement is welcome.
>> 
>> DSN is not always a file or directory, so I think that it shoud not use
>> dsn_opt->gisprompt = "file,file,file";
>  
> But does it harm?
> The inconvenience of not having a button is IMHO higher than ignoring the
> button for PostGIS.
> 
> Markus
> 
> 
> 

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