GUI enhancement to show only query results as text in a tree?

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Amanda Galtman <Amanda.Galtman at mathworks.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The BaseX GUI is very nice for interactively tweaking a query or exploring > my data set. However, one thing I wish I could do with the GUI is see query > results as text in a tree with expandable/collapsible nodes. An example of > what I mean is in the right pane of this Qizx screen capture: > > http://www.axyana.com/qizxopen/_distrib/docs/manual/qizxstudio.html#d0e4472 > > The tree in the screen capture makes it easy to distinguish between adjacent > result items, and the collapsibility of result items makes it easier to > decide when you want to browse the results at a high level or dig into a > specific result. > > By contrast, the BaseX GUI’s text view shows all the text of the query > results, but they run together. The folder visualization has > expandable/collapsible nodes, but because it shows the query-result nodes in > the context of the entire database, you might have to expand a lot of nodes > to discover where the query-result nodes are. While it can be useful to see > the query-result nodes in context, I often want to see only the results > themselves; and if I decide I need more context, I tweak my query to return > more context. > > Would it be possible in a future release of BaseX to get a text tree-view of > just the query results? Better yet, is it already available but I don’t know > about it? > > Thanks, > Amanda > > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >

-----Original Message----- From: Christian Grün [mailto:christian.gruen at gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 5:53 AM To: Amanda Galtman Cc: basex-talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de Subject: Re: [basex-talk] GUI enhancement to show only query results as text in a tree? Hi Amanda, thanks for your mail. We have thought about adding new visualizations to BaseX now and then. As our focus has more and more been shifted to database-centric features, I'm afraid that the introduction of new visualization will need to have lower priority, unless we find some open source developers who are interested in contributing to the project, or unless there are no commercial use cases that require such extensions. If all your results are nodes of the currently opened database, you may instead use the filter button, which will only visualize the resulting nodes in all visualizations, and use XQuery or the provided buttons to do more refinements. However, this approach differs a little from the solutions provided in Qizx or oXygen. Hope this helps, Christian On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Amanda Galtman <Amanda.Galtman at mathworks.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The BaseX GUI is very nice for interactively tweaking a query or > exploring my data set. However, one thing I wish I could do with the > GUI is see query results as text in a tree with expandable/collapsible > nodes. An example of what I mean is in the right pane of this Qizx screen capture: > > http://www.axyana.com/qizxopen/_distrib/docs/manual/qizxstudio.html#d0 > e4472 > > The tree in the screen capture makes it easy to distinguish between > adjacent result items, and the collapsibility of result items makes it > easier to decide when you want to browse the results at a high level > or dig into a specific result. > > By contrast, the BaseX GUI's text view shows all the text of the query > results, but they run together. The folder visualization has > expandable/collapsible nodes, but because it shows the query-result > nodes in the context of the entire database, you might have to expand > a lot of nodes to discover where the query-result nodes are. While it > can be useful to see the query-result nodes in context, I often want > to see only the results themselves; and if I decide I need more > context, I tweak my query to return more context. > > Would it be possible in a future release of BaseX to get a text > tree-view of just the query results? Better yet, is it already > available but I don't know about it? > > Thanks, > Amanda > > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >