Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago
Our preference is to deal with this and other related preferences such as
colours, font size, etc in a preference file.
Original comment by mmcc...@gmail.com
on 16 Oct 2014 at 2:06
That would be great to add it to the list. Eventually,
it would make sense to gather together a number
of small features that would be best handled by
the existence of a “user preferences” file. The
first issue would be figuring out how and where
to store the file. After that, it would be fairly straight
forward to start adding various options to the file.
Some things that would be nice to save in a
preference file:
- number formatting
- font size
- color preferences for various views
- possibly font encoding
- possibly commonly used options for particular views
such as: show/hide regimes in scatter plot
I didn’t realize that a lot of people using GeoDa aren’t
familiar with scientific notation. That does raise the
priority some for sure. These are the things that
I don’t get to know about easily since I’m not teaching
courses with GeoDa. I really appreciate having
this issues brought to my attention.
Original comment by jkosc...@asu.edu
on 16 Oct 2014 at 2:07
Just to add a few more ideas for number formatting in a preference file:
- add system-wide default for number of significant digits
- add system-wide override for "." vs "," in real number encoding. Right now
we rely on localization preferences in the OS, but there could easily be
instances where this fails it would be nice to provide the user with an
override.
Original comment by mmcc...@gmail.com
on 16 Oct 2014 at 2:12
Regarding the scientific notation thing. I’m guessing that
many users are not familiar with seeing the
“e” symbol in the numbers. This is understandable since
it’s a convention that has been necessitated by computers
not being able to easily display superscripts in the past.
In grade 9, I learned how to read numbers like:
1.53 x 10^3 (with a real superscript 3, not “^3”)
1.53e10 is the default short-form provided by the system.
A years ago, I looked into formatting with real superscripts.
in the GeoDa Table using wxWidgets. It seemed to be
possible theoretically, but I wasn’t able to get it working
and could find no example of anybody else doing it.
Original comment by mmcc...@gmail.com
on 16 Oct 2014 at 2:38
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
jkosc...@asu.edu
on 16 Oct 2014 at 2:01