[Qgis-developer] custom attribute inserting/editing

Tim Sutton tim at linfiniti.com
Wed Feb 13 12:06:52 EST 2008


Hi

If you are up for a bit of coding, I would suggest rather to look at
the Qt classes that facilitat this kind of thing (one day we need to
get this into core QGIS too).

eg http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/qsqlrelationaltablemodel.html

Regards

Tim

2008/2/13, Bud P. Bruegger <bud at comune.grosseto.it>:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm new to the list, so please forgive my possible ignorance.
>
> I am looking into the possibility of custom attribute editing, i.e.,
> to customize how the attributes for a certain feature type are
> presented.  Customizations could include combo boxes/option selectors
> with a predifined set of possible values (possibly taken from a postgres
> table; using a code but presenting a full label; etc.), some constraint
> checks on an attribute fields, etc.
>
> It seems to me that adding all that functionality to qGIS would require
> to basically re-implement a dmbs client that allows the definition of
> custom forms. So instead of taking on something so ambitious, I was
> wondering whether it would be possible to delegate attribute input and
> editing to an existing external program (incl. Open Office Base) in a
> customizable way.
>
> So my questions are:
> * is this feasible?
> * is this something a python programmer without GUI experience can do
> (i.e., I)?
> * if so, where would I start?
>
> many thanks and kind regards
>
> -bud
>
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