Re: Importing CSV files

["Arq. Maximiliano" Meilán <meilan adinet com uy>]

I think that Import into tables in the File menu is better. Its the
usual place for other software, and refers more to data than tables.
Maximiliano

El mar, 13-05-2008 a las 23:24 +0200, Armin Burgmeier escribió:
> On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 16:48 +0200, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> > I'm starting to implement importing CSV files into glom tables. There is
> > a rough UI mockup at http://arbur.net/stuff/importcsv.png. Do people
> > think more/other options are required? Perhaps always the current table
> > should be used, so the "Import Into Table:" field can be removed.
> > 
> > When the "First line as title" checkbutton is not checked, then the
> > treeview headers can simply be removed. The TreeView itself shows some
> > example rows and lets the user associate the fields in the CSV file to
> > fields in the Glom table. It's perhaps a bit more complicated to
> > implement than a vertical view, but I think it's more convenient this
> > way and so probably worth the effort.
> > 
> > Are there other comments/suggestions concerning the planned UI?
> > 
> > I also had a look at GdaDataModelImport, but it does not seem to support
> > progressive loading, which I think is necessary for importing big files
> > without blocking the UI and showing progress bars.
> 
> I just committed an initial version of CSV file importing. I added a
> "Insert Into Table" menu item to the Tables menu, though it is perhaps
> better to have that menu item elsewhere (Export is in the File menu).
> 
> Probably more encodings need to be added. I could copy the list from
> gedit.
> 
> I did not use GdaDataModelImport for now so that the file can already
> started to be parsed while not having been fully read yet. I'm not sure
> this is necessary for average use (although perhaps nice for large files
> on slow (network?) drives), but the GIO API makes it easy to implement
> anyway.
> 
> Feedback is very much appreciated.
> 
> Armin
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