[GRASS-dev] question about new query

[Michael Barton]

Good point that I forgot to mention about the attribute manager. It takes several steps to get from a vector feature that you can see on a map to a place where you can edit its attributes. But maybe editing could be routed through attribute manager tools rather than query tools, with a separate menu/display entry? 

One wish for the query tools is that there is an option for the query results to accumulate in the window the way they did in the console so that you can see and save the results of multiple mouse queries. 

Thanks
Michael
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On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:03 AM, Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>
 wrote:

> On 19/02/13 09:44, Martin Landa wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 2013/2/19 Anna Kratochvílová<kratochanna at gmail.com>:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>>> the previous system allows to change attributes by querying which is
>>> in my opinion wrong behavior (#1608).  Currently, you can change the
>>> attributes in the attribute manager and in the digitizer. I agree that
>>> it is less convenient than before. So the query dialog could on
>>> request display Attribute Manager with dialog for editing record or
>>> DisplayAttributesDialog?
>> 
>> I would agree with Anna. Attributes should be editable only in
>> specific mode (in digitizer) or by specialized tool (attribute table
>> manager).
> 
> I agree that editable attributes should not be the default, but I've also always found unelegant to have to activate digitization (and so the possibility of accidentally changing the map features) just in order to be able to change an attribute. Also, the possibility to click on an object to change its attributes is IMHO a basic feature any GIS should have, and having to identify the object in the attribute manager through other means (e.g. SQL search) is not the same. Why not go back to the old way of offering both options: default is dialog without editing (valid for both vector and raster), but also an option for vector map querying with editable fields ?
> 
> Moritz