[Qgis-developer] Better options dialogs

[Etienne Tourigny]

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> Hi Etienne,
>
> This looks cool.
>
> It would be very nice if one could search within this tree editor - and
> if the settings could have a more descriptive text as well as well as
> alternative tags if one only knows the term a bit fuzzy.
>
> Do you think that a search and a "fuzzy search" could be added?

a search based on settings key could be done easily, for the rest see below.

>
> Where do you get the list of properties from? Could tags and descriptive
> text be added to these settings?

Actually they are read from the settings file / registry by QSettings.
So anything not in the user's setting does not show up.

Anything more complex such as you mention would require a csv or xml
file with description and tags for each settings key.
A csv file would be easier to write and maintain, but an xml file
would be easier to parse I guess. Unless someone can point me to
a handy xml editor or csv-to-xml tool.

Another thing that would be nice would be the possible values that a
setting can take, in a dictionnary (key=value pairs) style.
(e.g. 0="value1";1="value2")

Etienne

>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
>
> Am 05.01.2013 17:11, schrieb Etienne Tourigny:
>> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Etienne Tourigny
>> <etourigny.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Larry
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Larry Shaffer <larrys at dakotacarto.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Matthias and Nathan,
>>>>>
>>>>> I was just about to bring this topic back up myself. :^) Yes, I can
>>>>> work on this next (probably this weekend). I'll start with the main
>>>>> app options dialog, cause it's the simplest.
>>>>
>>>> Great to hear that ;-)
>>>>
>>>> I just wanted to add that I would also appreciate (for options dialog)
>>>> what Tim has already mentioned: the "advanced" tab with a property
>>>> list widget (something like [1]): we have lots of settings that are
>>>> very rarely used (and some of them are even hard to decipher for
>>>> developers!), so moving such clutter outside of regular tabs would
>>>> bring some fresh air to the options dialog. Of course this can be done
>>>> completely separately from what you're going to implement, just wanted
>>>> to point out that this would a welcome addition, too :-)
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://www.myvirtualdisplay.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/firefox_config.png
>>>
>>>
>>> I have in the past written a simple widget based on QT Settings editor
>>> example [0].
>>> It does exactly what you mention.
>>>
>>> I can try to dig up that code, post a screenshot and create a pull
>>> request for others to review.
>>>
>>> [0] http://doc.qt.digia.com/qt/tools-settingseditor.html
>>>
>>> Etienne
>>
>> I have pushed this to my branch
>> https://github.com/etiennesky/Quantum-GIS/tree/settingseditor
>>
>> Attached is a screenshot - first basic implementation is a standalone
>> dialog that can be opened in Settings->Settings Editor.
>>
>> It allows to edit existing settings keys only, but could be modified
>> to include non-existing keys also.
>>
>> It needs improvements for non-string keys (such as bool or integer
>> values with special meanings), because it treats most values as string
>> and uses only lineedits for changing values.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Etienne
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Martin
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