Re: Graphical Query Builder -- expanding public requires annoying double click - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: Graphical Query Builder -- expanding public requires annoying double click
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Msg-id 4C9BBECD.7070003@lelarge.info
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In response to Re: Graphical Query Builder -- expanding public requires annoying double click  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Le 23/09/2010 22:48, Magnus Hagander a écrit :
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 22:44, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
>> Le 23/09/2010 22:37, Thom Brown a écrit :
>>> On 23 September 2010 21:31, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Peter Dietz <pdietz84@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>> I have a minor grievance with pgAdmin3's Graphical Query Builder.
>>>>> I click plus on Schemas, then public has no plus, so I must double click
>>>>> public, then the plus button appears, which I can then click to expand the
>>>>> list to see whats in my database.
>>>>> [-] my-database-name
>>>>>     [+] Catalogs
>>>>>     [-] Schemas
>>>>>             public
>>>>> I would like that public would already have the expand symbol present by
>>>>> default.
>>>>> This is only a minor inconvenience, but it will hopefully save me, and every
>>>>> other user a little bit of time.
>>>>
>>>> It probably wouldn't, because it would require pre-populating the
>>>> node. If you have multiple schemas, that means scanning all of them
>>>> for objects in advance of when you actually want them.
>>>
>>> It is a bit unintuitive to present the user with a tree which suddenly
>>> stops, but expect them to know to double click on it to go further.
>>> Couldn't this have a [+] anyway, which would disappear if there was
>>> nothing inside?  And is there that much of a cost of doing the scan
>>> anyway?  The user will nearly always need to open the schema node
>>> anyway.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure we can do this. The "+" sign appears when the node has
>> children. And before one double clicks on the node, there are no
>> children to this node.
>>
>> I don't say this is impossible. Just that I don't see an easy way to
>> code what you want.
> 
> Could we just create a fake empty item under it that says "loading..."
> or something like that?
> 
> 

Could be working.


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