Hi Stefan,
although I do not know very much about this topic I wonder how this is
solved with other file-based data sets, e.g. shape. Furthermore I would
not limit csv to Excel. I normally use an editor for csv (and sometimes
LibreOffice). The editor does not lock the file but offers to refresh it
if it has been changed on disk. LO does lock the file, so no concurrent
editing is possible.
Bernhard
Am 19.07.2017 um 08:23 schrieb Stefan Keller:
Hii Andreas
I think this is particularly a Windows issue. For Linux it could be
implemented such that files are'nt write locked to other programs.
Background is how to solve the problem of concurrent editing (a file).
Just unlocking the file implies some problems of this type on how to
"inform" the other client to refresh?
A proper solution would be to implement a bidirectional communication
between Excel and QGIS - similar to how GISconnector for Excel (and
ArcGIS) did it.
Unfortunately Excel needs to be programmed in VBA :-(
:Stefan
2017-07-19 7:45 GMT+02:00 Andreas Neumann <[email protected]>:
Hi,
Is there a particular technical reason why csv/text files aren't editable in
QGIS? Or is this mainly for historical reasons and it could be implemented
as editable with reasonable effort?
I know that there is a plugin called "Editable GeoCSV" - but shouldn't this
be supported by QGIS in general, without the need for a plugin?
I'd be willing to financially support such an improvement in QGIS core,
should a developer be interested in working on it.
Thanks,
Andreas
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