[Qgis-developer] Attribute Editor: Dual View

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Nathan,

Answers in the text

On 01/09/2013 12:43 PM, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> Hey Matthias,
>
> Interesting idea.  Look forward to seeing the development of this 
> feature.   Two questions before I ask any others.
>
>  - Does this change the behaviour of the identify tool?  What happens 
> when I am in edit mode and click on a feature? Same as it currently 
> is?  If we could add multi edit, multi select to the identify tool 
> that would be neat.
We did not agree on a particular behavior in this case so far. My idea 
is, to open a dual view window as well (with a filter applied that 
matches only the current selection or a sorting, so the selection 
appears on top). Multi edit could then be easily based on this.

>  - How would you handle custom UI forms? Just embed them in the split 
> view.
That's the idea.
>
> Overall I think it's a great idea and would greatly welcome a feature 
> like this.
>
> - Nathan
Matthias
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Matthias Kuhn <matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch 
> <mailto:matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch>> wrote:
>
>     Dear list,
>
>     Denis, Andreas and I have been working on a proposal concerning
>     the attribute table and attribute editor.
>     We are convinced that it is a good idea to combine these two into
>     a single window and add/change some functionality.
>     There is a document [1] online which describes our ideas and
>     contains some mockups. We will start working on this soon and
>     would like to encourage everybody to read and comment on our ideas.
>
>     Regards,
>     Matthias
>
>     [1]:
>     https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dL965ky4OoyeN9fEcqP9SWHVeQxTj1IFkBrEXTUBZuY/edit?pli=1#heading=h.seeehmi30hq0
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