Me too! Access had a nice single-record view for editing. It should be fairly simple to implement this for JUMP. A nifty "tape player" record control would be a nice thing to have too.
Larry Becker wrote: > >Would the single record editor have a fixed number of "cells" that > >could be incremented/decremented to view different parts of the > >record, or would it be dynamically constructed based on the number of > >attributes with a vertical scroll bar? > > I like the second option. > > > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Sunburned Surveyor > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > I'm glad I'm not the only one that get's frustrated with the > attribute tables. > > Larry wrote: "I've never found one. I suspect that the programming to > fix the things you mention would not be too difficult, but as you > point out, the modifications wouldn't be there the next session so why > bother." > > You are correct. This solution, if it was to be practical, would need > to preserve the layout changes by saving the state of the table > layout. This is doable, but could be messy. > > Larry wrote: "A suggestion someone made previously that would improve > data entry and edit of attributes is to provide an option to go to a > single record vertical layout. I still like that solution." > > I was thinking about a flexible grid of text boxes that could be used > to cycle trough the records in the table. I've seen something similar > in AutoLisp's Dialog Control Language, which has no built in table > component. However, I like the idea of a single record editor (in a > vertical layout) better. Maybe I mess around with this concept a > little bit. > > Would the single record editor have a fixed number of "cells" that > could be incremented/decremented to view different parts of the > record, or would it be dynamically constructed based on the number of > attributes with a vertical scroll bar? > > SS > > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Larry Becker > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >>Does anyone ever get frustrated with the user interactions > involving the > >> attribute table? > > > > Yes. > > > >> There is no horizontal scroll bar. > > > > What is that thing at the bottom of the window? > > > >> Does anyone know if there is an open source component or JTable > extension > >> that solves some of these issues? > > > > I've never found one. I suspect that the programming to fix the > things you > > mention would not be too difficult, but as you point out, the > modifications > > wouldn't be there the next session so why bother. > > > > A suggestion someone made previously that would improve data > entry and edit > > of attributes is to provide an option to go to a single record > vertical > > layout. I still like that solution. > > > > regards, > > Larry > > > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Sunburned Surveyor > > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> > >> Does anyone ever get frustrated with the user interactions > involving > >> the attribute table? I keeping wanting it to behave like a > spreadsheet > >> in Excel, which it does not. :] Maybe I am spoiled and > expecting too > >> much from Swing. Here is a short list of what is irritating me: > >> > >> There is no horizontal scroll bar. This can be a pain when you > have a > >> FeatureSchema with lots of attributes. > >> There is no way to double click on the seam between columns so that > >> the columsn automatically "best fit" the data contained in the > >> columns. > >> There is no way to specify the alignment/justification of the > data in the > >> cells. > >> There is no way to have the content of a columns cells "wrap" > when a > >> max width is hit. > >> > >> I was reading in one of my Swing books last night, and I couldn't > >> immediately see ways to fix this using built-in JTable > properties. It > >> would likely have to be patched up with some custom cell > renderers and > >> some other tweaks. > >> > >> Does anyone know if there is an open source component or JTable > >> extension that solves some of these issues? Do these issues bug > anyone > >> else? > >> > >> If I'm doing any serious attribute editing, I can always save > my layer > >> to a shapefile and open the DBF in something like Excel or Open > >> Office, but I'd like to improve what I can with the attribute > tables > >> in OpenJUMP. I'm thinking I'd have to come up with a mechanism > to save > >> the user's table layout modifications, and that might be too > >> complicated. > >> > >> Thanks for your thoughts. > >> > >> The Sunburned Surveyor > >> > >> > >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > >> [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > > > > > > > > -- > > http://amusingprogrammer.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > > > > > -- > http://amusingprogrammer.blogspot.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > -- Martin Davis Senior Technical Architect Refractions Research, Inc. 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