[Qgis-developer] extensions to postgis dialog

[godofredo contreras]

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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