On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Lee Hachadoorian <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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.
as I said - configuration settings are in $HOME/.config/QuantumGIS/QGIS.conf but in windows they are buried in the windows registry (that's how QT handles settings). > > 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
