> On 10/13/2011 2:24 AM, edgar.sol...@web.de wrote: >> On 13.10.2011 01:02, Martin Davis wrote: >>> One reason for having the double choice of both format and file name is >>> that there are formats (such as GML) which don't have a standard file >>> extension that can be used to drive the choice of format. >>> >>> Also, in JUMP originally we supported a zipped shapefile concept. It >>> had the extension .zip, but was read by the Shapefile driver. >>> >>> One thing that could be do would be to use the file extension to drive >>> the initial format setting, but allow it to be overridden for files with >>> non-specific extensions. >>> >> How about a checkbox 'filter by extension', which can be disabled allowing >> to select any file with any selection in the format dropdown? >>
> Ok, but I'm not sure how this solves the problem of determining the > format of a file with an unknown extension? > there is no determination. but, it allows users to assign a format of their choice to a file of their choice and try to open it. seen? ede ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
