{"id":186,"date":"2009-12-20T23:06:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T03:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2009-12-20T23:07:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T03:07:56","slug":"adding-features-fighting-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/adding-features-fighting-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding features, fighting fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next version (0.8.15) will have two big new features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ability to apply filtering to tables.  For example, if you are only interested in the data for one gender you could add a filter so that all the reports you make based on a given table are derived from the selected gender&#8217;s subset of the data.  It is easy to add, remove, and alter filters to tables.<\/li>\n<li>The ability to set preferences, e.g. if you are in the US, Canada, the Philippines, Belize, Palau, or the Federated Republic of Micronesia, you may wish to allow mm\/dd\/yy as a date format for data entry instead of dd\/mm\/yy.  Over time, there will no doubt be other preference options available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There have also been miscellaneous bug fixes, smaller features e.g. tooltips, and further expansion of test coverage.  Now to the most recent fire I had to put out.  There is a problem (hopefully temporary) where users of GTK applications can click a button, have it depress, and have nothing actually happen (unless they then click on the Enter key).  What this means for SOFA Statistics is that when a Ubuntu user clicked on the new Preferences button, a preferences dialog wouldn&#8217;t appear.  The solution was to change the launcher slightly so it set the GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS environment variable.  So instead of:<\/p>\n<p><code>python \/usr\/share\/pyshared\/sofa\/start.py<\/code><\/p>\n<p>the launcher now invokes:<br \/>\n<code>bash -c \"GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 python \/usr\/share\/pyshared\/sofa\/start.py\"<\/code><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; which solves the problem completely.<\/p>\n<p>I made a similar change to the launcher for eclipse.  See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/forums\/index.php?&#038;t=msg&#038;th=153842\">http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/forums\/index.php?&#038;t=msg&#038;th=153842<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.export.be\/2009\/10\/fixing-eclipse-for-ubuntu-karmic-koala-9-10\/\">http:\/\/blog.export.be\/2009\/10\/fixing-eclipse-for-ubuntu-karmic-koala-9-10\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next version (0.8.15) will have two big new features: The ability to apply filtering to tables. For example, if you are only interested in the data for one gender you could add a filter so that all the reports you make based on a given table are derived from the selected gender&#8217;s subset of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}