[Qgis-developer] The first column in the attribute table

[Matthias Kuhn]

s/column/row/

On 17/06/16 19:19, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> as of today there's also the feature id shown in the tooltip of the
> attribute table's column header. I think this will help one or another
> developer once in a while.
>
> Matthias
>
> On 16/06/16 10:34, Neumann, Andreas wrote:
>>
>> Thank you, Matthias!
>>
>> I will test it.
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> On 2016-06-16 09:35, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>>
>>> Sure, you are right,
>>>
>>> Sorry, the commit message was wrong but the code is ok.
>>>
>>> Matthias
>>>
>>> On 06/16/2016 09:28 AM, Neumann, Andreas wrote:
>>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>>
>>>> Column header numbers? Aren't we discussing row header numbers?
>>>>
>>>> Andreas
>>>>
>>>> On 2016-06-16 09:25, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Andreas
>>>>>
>>>>> It took me less time than it took me to write this email
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/9f704d6e92b922555bddb3a5a648edaac2aedf34
>>>>>
>>>>> Matthias
>>>>>
>>>>> On 06/16/2016 09:18 AM, Neumann, Andreas wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If there are no negative side effects - I'd like to see the same
>>>>>> behaviour like in spreadsheets - an always ascending list,
>>>>>> starting from
>>>>>> 1 - regardless of the order of the rows.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would this be a lot of work to change this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andreas
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2016-06-16 09:06, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Andreas,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I always thought that they are the feature ID. But not even
>>>>>>> that, often
>>>>>>> they are "feature id - 1", but that's not guaranteed at all.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We could make it match the feature id. Or the current index in
>>>>>>> the table
>>>>>>> like you propose.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Matthias
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 06/16/2016 08:56 AM, Neumann, Andreas wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'd like to discuss an issue in the attribute table.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There is this very first column (not stored in the provider) which
>>>>>>>> lists
>>>>>>>> the features as they appear in the provider (by default, if not
>>>>>>>> re-ordered by the user). What are these values? Some internal
>>>>>>>> ID not
>>>>>>>> present in the data? Or some internal ID from the qt table widget?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am just wondering, because regarding this first column, QGIS
>>>>>>>> behaves
>>>>>>>> different from Spreadsheets.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> When you reorder the table in QGIS, this very first column
>>>>>>>> becomes "out
>>>>>>>> of order" - spreadsheets always display 1 to xxx - nicely ordered -
>>>>>>>> regardless of the sort order. Could QGIS be aligned to the
>>>>>>>> behaviour of
>>>>>>>> spreadsheets or is there a particular reason not do so? I
>>>>>>>> think, from a
>>>>>>>> users perspective, because these numbers are not present in the
>>>>>>>> data,
>>>>>>>> that it would be more useful if they always stay ordered from 1
>>>>>>>> to xxx
>>>>>>>> or 0 to xxx, regardless of sorting.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thank you for your feedback.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Andreas
>>>>>>>>
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