Re: [Qgis-developer] opening same table twice

2014-10-08 Thread Martin Dobias
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: Two tables can also also have different filters. So you might want to compare them. Restricting to a single open table per layer is not good IMO, but yes the side stacking option that currently happens is not ideal.

Re: [Qgis-developer] opening same table twice

2014-10-08 Thread Matthias Kuhn
On 10/08/2014 10:25 AM, Martin Dobias wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: Two tables can also also have different filters. So you might want to compare them. Restricting to a single open table per layer is not good IMO, but yes the side stacking

[Qgis-developer] opening same table twice

2014-10-07 Thread Raymond Nijssen
Not sure if I met a feature or a bug... I can open the same attribute table multiple times. I would expect, when I open it the second time, QGIS would just show/focus on the window containing the already opened table. Is this meant to be this way? Regards, Raymond

Re: [Qgis-developer] opening same table twice

2014-10-07 Thread Denis Rouzaud
On 07.10.2014 14:35, Matthias Kuhn wrote: Hi Raymond, Just discussed this last week with Denis who thought that sometimes this is intentional (comparing two tables). We thought about having the possibility to have a split view on the table. Once this is possible we could prevent the attribute

Re: [Qgis-developer] opening same table twice

2014-10-07 Thread Ramon Andiñach
On 07/10/2014, at 20:35 , Matthias Kuhn wrote: Hi Raymond, Just discussed this last week with Denis who thought that sometimes this is intentional (comparing two tables). When I deliberately open a table more than once, this is why. (Oft times I forget that I have a table open, because

Re: [Qgis-developer] opening same table twice

2014-10-07 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 07/10/2014 14:41, Ramon Andiñach ha scritto: We thought about having the possibility to have a split view on the table. Once this is possible we could prevent the attribute table from being opened several times for the same layer. This would be handy. It sounds like something that would

Re: [Qgis-developer] opening same table twice

2014-10-07 Thread Raymond Nijssen
Hi Matthias, What is the point of comparing two identical tables? If they have the same source, the contents must be the same. Or do you mean comparing different parts of the same table? In that case a split view would indeed solve the problem. A disadvantage of opening the same table

Re: [Qgis-developer] opening same table twice

2014-10-07 Thread Bernhard Ströbl
Hi, IMHO the current behaviour is not optimal. I often see my users having the same table opened several times because the expected behaviour is that if it is already open it comes to focus (similar as with opening files). If the layer has many features opening the same table a second (or

Re: [Qgis-developer] opening same table twice

2014-10-07 Thread Raymond Nijssen
I think for smaller screens we can use tabs in the same window. All the best. Actually I expect a table would be split horizontally, dividing is in an upper and lower part. Both parts having their own scrollbar. Now you can scroll to row 1000 with one part and compare the values to the

Re: [Qgis-developer] opening same table twice

2014-10-07 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 07/10/2014 14:46, Bernhard Ströbl ha scritto: So how about having an option Open only one instance of a layer's table that is ticked by default? Just untick if you need to compare tables (e.g. with different filters applied). I would be against the proliferation of options: better

Re: [Qgis-developer] opening same table twice

2014-10-07 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 07/10/2014 14:44, Raymond Nijssen ha scritto: What is the point of comparing two identical tables? If they have the same source, the contents must be the same. Or do you mean comparing different parts of the same table? In that case a split view would indeed solve the problem. Often

Re: [Qgis-developer] opening same table twice

2014-10-07 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Two tables can also also have different filters. So you might want to compare them. Restricting to a single open table per layer is not good IMO, but yes the side stacking option that currently happens is not ideal. Something else I have considered in this situation is a table manager type dock,