> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Andre Joost <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Further down the same panel, I have a dropdownbox "Behaviour of Attribute >> table" (or whatever it is in your language). >> >> After switching to "Show All Objects", I see them in the table. >> >> HTH, >> André Joost
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Etienne Tourigny <[email protected]> wrote: > confirmed. Lee probably changed that setting without knowing it - > funky things can happen with mouse scrolling sometimes - you > inadvertently scroll down a combo box when you meant to scroll the > page. > > Etienne Thanks so much, André and Etienne. That is exactly right. The dropdown was set to "Show selected features". And, yes, I was using the scroll wheel to scroll down the panel, so that must be how I unintentionally changed the setting. Two follow-up remarks: First, I did a complete uninstall, using purge, then deleted the empty $HOME/.qgis anyway. The setting persisted through this. Now that I know what the problem is, I double-checked. Set "Show selected features" sudo apt-get remove --purge qgis sudo apt-get autoremove #removes all the dependencies rm ~/.qgis sudo apt-get install qgis I confirm that the configuration folder does not exist. The configuration folder gets recreated at first launch of QGIS. I look at the Options, and Attribute table behavior is still set to "Show selected features". Second, there is one (too me) weird thing about the behavior of "Show selected features". When set, the attribute table can only display from the universe of features *selected when the attribute table is first opened*. If you then change the selection (using the select tool or using Invert Selection) the selected features will be highlighted on the map, but will not be updated in the attribute table. Invert selection immediately yields an empty feature table because the inverted selection obviously includes only features that were not selected when the attribute table was opened. I don't know if this is intended behavior, but it is very different from the "Show selected only" checkbox at the bottom of the attribute table panel. When that checkbox is on, the attribute table displays the selection as a subset of the entire dataset. If a subset of records appear in the table because of the "Show selected features" setting, and then you check "Show selected only", selected records will appear in the attribute table only if they were in the original selection when the attribute table was opened. Thanks for the assistance. --Lee -- Lee Hachadoorian Asst Professor of Geography, Dartmouth College http://freecity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
