Hi Gavin, I agree that having a warning would be very helpful. I've found a workaround, though, that's helpful for me and might be helpful for you, too. In the import data window, under "General Options", I add a prefix (or suffix) that signifies which file the data is coming from. I make the prefix unique, and thus my imported data never gets overwritten.
Steve On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Junkshops <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeremy and all, > > I'm wondering how difficult it would be to add dataset namespaces. Currently > if a file is imported with a data row/column label that's the same as a data > label in a previously imported file, the new data row/column will clobber > the old one from the previous file. In the use case of multiple experimental > conditions resulting in files with the same format, that means the > researcher has to go into each file and add some sort of unique id to the > label of each row of data if he or she wants to display multiple datasets in > the same Veusz graph. Additionally, if two imported files usually have > different labels but in rare cases have the same label, one of the data sets > will clobber the other without the researcher knowing it (no error or > warning occurs - the old data is silently overwritten). > > Hence if the data labels from one file could have namespaces designated by > the user, perhaps defaulting to the filenames, it could be very useful for > researchers dealing with data in multiple files. I'm not sure how much > reworking of the code that might take though - could be substantial. Anyway, > just a suggestion - but I would at minimum advocate warning a user if his or > her data is going to be overwritten. > > Cheers, Gavin > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Veusz-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/veusz-discuss _______________________________________________ Veusz-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/veusz-discuss
