On 3 February 2010 13:40, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3 February 2010 12:22, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Setting the background colour isn't the issue, it's adding an icon to
>>> indicate the sort direction which is the most valuable indicator imho.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, and when you pointed out that I could right-click a cell and
>> select sorting options there, I found the sort I selected had no
>> effect, due to the fact that the first column was sorted by default
>> (probably because it's the primary key or something). I consider this
>> to be a gotcha. And yes, it's not clear what the active filters are,
>> or what order they are being applied in. If there were some way to
>> provide visual feedback on this, it would be helpful. Maybe something
>> like adding an extra textual row within the header to indicate the
>> current filters and their order?
>>
>> Like:
>>
>> id name age
>> int varchar(64) int
>> asc(1) desc(2)
>>
>> Although this isn't as elegant a solution as I'd want personally.
>
> Yeah, we'd need to find something nicer than that. Those headers are
> already taller than I like.
>
And going back to the greyed out copy/paste/delete options, why can't
we copy a column or a range of cells? For example, if I select the
equivalent of B4 through C10, upon right-clicking on that range I'd
want to see an option that would let me copy what has been selected.
And also if the data grid is editable, selecting the whole grid and
selecting copy also copies in the new row from the bottom.
It's really just to make things more intuitive and flexible. I still
can't think of a neat solution for displaying the column sorting
though.
Thom
