Re: Importing CSV files

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 17:08 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 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.
>
> I think it should show what table will be used, but it shouldn't be a
> choice. It should just use the current table.
>
>
> > 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.
>
> It looks good. I guess you'd want the field choice at the top, or else
> they would not be visible when viewing many example rows.
>
> By the way "sample" rows is better than "example" rows.
>
> I don't know how you'll manage to implement having a combo just on the
> last row with TreeView.

I planned using GtkCellRendererCombo everywhere, but setting the
"editable" property only for a specific row, via a CellDataFunc.

> > 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.
>
> OK. But if it's easy and useful then think about
> improving GdaDataModelImport. I've barely looked at it though.

I'll have a look.

Armin