Bug 86507

Summary:	Delay instantiation of datasources in datawizard
Product:	[Applications] kst	Reporter:	Nicolas Brisset <nicolas.brisset>
Component:	general	Assignee:	George Staikos <staikos>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.x
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Solaris
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Description Nicolas Brisset 2004-08-03 17:47:24 UTC

Version:           0.99-devel (using KDE 3.2.1, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.2
OS:                SunOS (sun4u) release 5.8

(revealed by the cdf datasource)
I really fail to see why a datasource should be instantiated when the first page in the datawizard is shown. It is OK to reload the last selection in the URL requester and test for a datasource that understands the file to activate the "Next" button, but currently the list of fields is queried at the same time, which you might notice with "slow" datasources. With my cdf source which takes very long (i.e. 10 s or more) to open a file, many users would kill kst before the wizard appears :-(
I think it is enough to check for a source that understands the file in the first page, then set the busy cursor and instantiate the datasource + query fields before the second page is shown.

Comment 1 George Staikos 2004-08-05 23:21:31 UTC

I started into this.  It's a bit tricky to implement cleanly since it changes flow completely from the previous design.

Comment 2 George Staikos 2004-10-15 11:22:09 UTC

Ah yes, forgot to close this one.