Bug 135330

Summary:	UI/usability: make it possible to edit scalars from the "View scalars" dialog
Product:	[Applications] kst	Reporter:	Nicolas Brisset <nicolas.brisset>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kst
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.3.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Solaris
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Nicolas Brisset 2006-10-09 11:05:48 UTC

Version:           1.3.0 (using KDE 3.4.0, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.4.3
OS:                SunOS (sun4u) release 5.8

Someone asked me recently whether scalars could be edited. I thought they could, but we didn't find the way to do it. I was just about to create a new wishlist when I had a doubt: looking up previous bugs, I found bug #95031 which implemented this, though hidden away in the UI. 
After some fiddling around, I finally noticed the "Change selected scalar" button in the equation dialog, which allows changing scalar values for user-defined scalars. I think it would be very nice to add the same edition capabilities to the "View scalar values" dialog, where we consistently looked for it.
Another option/complement would be to add user-defined scalars to the data manager, with a RMB action to edit them.

Comment 1 George Staikos 2006-10-09 17:45:17 UTC

Sorry we're not going to add that specifically.  We will eventually make "spreadsheet mode" once we have something that can be efficient though.

Comment 2 Nicolas Brisset 2006-10-09 17:56:00 UTC

I wasn't thinking about a spreadsheet approach, just a quick "double-click on item pops up edition dialog" way...
If this can't be done easily, I agree it's not high priority.
Reporting the bug might at least allow other users to find it next time :-)

However, the way it currently works "helped" us find a bad crash, which I'm going to report within the next minutes :-(

Comment 3 Netterfield 2006-10-10 04:50:59 UTC

Don't you think it would be useful to make user defined scalars into full 
citezens, like vectors and matrixes?  In which case they would appear and be 
edited from the datamanager...

On Monday 09 October 2006 11:45, George Staikos wrote:
[bugs.kde.org quoted mail]

Comment 4 George Staikos 2006-10-10 05:12:27 UTC

  That's an option...