[Gretl-devel] Re: geoplot and file-open dialog

Am 15.08.2020 um 02:39 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote: > >> Am 14.08.2020 um 10:39 schrieb Sven Schreiber: >>> Hi, >>> I'm wondering: Now with the geoplot addon in recent gretl versions we >>> have new file types understood by gretl, namely geojson and shape format >>> files. I guess it would be good if the file-open dialog could filter for >>> those files? (.json, .shp, perhaps .geojson) >> >> Sorry, to avoid confusion: It seems this is already implemented when >> going via File - open - user file. >> However, when going through File - Resource from addon - geoplot I only >> see the filters inp, gdt, gdtb. > > Yes, but by default you get to see _all_ files in those "resource" > directories (all of them should be suitable in some way or other), so > there's little point in allowing restriction to only shp or json or > whatever. Well yes, by default and initially it shouldn't be restricted. But I noticed this precisely because I wanted to see only the available geographic definitions without being distracted by the other stuff. And that isn't currently possible.