Re: Dialog box obscures information

On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 10:01 -0400, Colin Beckingham wrote:
> Using wxw 2.9.3, latest 1.17 pgadmin:
> 
> This is not an error, just a suggestion for improved interaction.
> 
> When viewing data from a table or view, begin by selecting all data.
> Then click on the funnel icon to get the dialog that allows you to enter 
> a sorting order or a filter. Pops up no problem.
> 
> Now, the issue is that when it pops up it obscures important information 
> that you might need for the sort or filter. It appears to very 
> effectively cover not only the existing data (not much of an issue, 
> since you are about to change that), but also a whole chunk of the field 
> names which you will need for typing into the dialog box.
> 
> Thinking that all you have to do is move the dialog box to reveal the 
> field names, you find that dragging the dialog box drags the parent 
> window with it. Objective defeated.
> 
> Ok so you think, no problem, I will get the field names from the SQL 
> pane on the main pgadmin window which contains the create ... 
> instructions with the field names. But here, while the main window is 
> selectable, the vertical and horizontal sliders are non-functional until 
> the dialog box in the child is dismissed.
> 
> So the only way so far is to cancel the dialog, gather all the info, and 
> start the dialog over again.
> 
> I guess there are a number of ways of dealing with this, including 
> making the field names available inside the child's dialog box (provided 
> in the sort dialog but not the filter). But the simplest would appear to 
> be, if possible, make the dialog box draggable independently of the 
> parent to reveal the field names and types.

Thanks Colin, I added this one to the list of 2.9 issues.


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