[Qgis-developer] identify dialog editable/not editable

[humarco]

Hi Tim,

Yes, attribute editing is only possible in the attribute table. And the user 
has to press 'start editing' in the attribute table. The table then gets 
modal and the user has to do 'stop editing' prior to leave the table (that's 
because it would be inefficient to check for added/removed/changed attributes 
during each redraw). Also, i'm thinking to make newly added layers not 
editable by default but placing items in the menu bar and the legend layer 
popup such that people find them more easily (as you suggested). The reason 
for this is that there is no need to cache geometries in vectorlayers if 
editing is off, so it's a bit more efficient (and less error prone).

So my proposal is:
-Don't set layers editable by default (but make start/stop editing buttons and 
a 'allow editing' entry in the legend layer popup).
-have attribute editing only in the attribute table
-have the same identify dialog in editable/non editable mode

Marco


Am Freitag 21 April 2006 10:30 schrieb Tim Sutton:
> Hi
>
> Yes I thought it was a bit odd the other day when I was testing stuff
> and filing bugs. Is your proposal to use the table view dialog only?
> And then allow editing by default on the table if the user is
> digitising? And if the user is not actively digitising a layer have an
> explicit edit button that will allow them to quickly change the
> attributes? This would be a good improvement.... Also using a treeview
> control really doesnt make sense to me as the information is not
> heirachical.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On 4/21/06, humarco <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch> wrote:
> > Hi developers,
> >
> > The identify dialog is different if a layer is editable/ not editable. I
> > would like to have it always in not-editable mode and therefore remove
> > some code in qgsmaptoolidentify. Is this ok for everyone or is the
> > editable-identify dialog used somewhere else (plugins?).
> >
> > cheers,
> > Marco
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