Bug report #19695: Line Edit widgets for integer numbers with thousand separators enabled are hard to edit - QGIS Application - QGIS Issue Tracking

Bug report #19695

Line Edit widgets for integer numbers with thousand separators enabled are hard to edit

Added by Andreas Neumann about 6 years ago. Updated about 6 years ago.

Status:	Closed
Priority:	Normal
Assignee:	Alessandro Pasotti
Category:	Edit widget
Affected QGIS version:	3.3(master)	Regression?:	No
Operating System:		Easy fix?:	No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:	Yes	Resolution:	fixed/implemented
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:	No	Copied to github as #:	27520

Description

When one has an attribute field with a line edit widget assigned and thousand separators enabled in the global Options (see attached screenshots), then it is really hard to edit longer numbers.
The thousand separator is treated like a regular character and the user manually has to make sure that the separator is positioned at the correct places.

This makes editing of numeric values using the line edit widget quite hard/complicated.

qgis-group-thousand-separator.png (52.1 KB) Andreas Neumann, 2018-08-25 05:01 PM

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Revision ae907878
Added by Alessandro Pasotti about 6 years ago

Remove group separator when editing numeric values

Fixes #19695 - Line Edit widgets for integer numbers with thousand separators enabled are hard to edit

History

#1 Updated by Alessandro Pasotti about 6 years ago

Assignee set to Alessandro Pasotti

#2 Updated by Alessandro Pasotti about 6 years ago

Status changed from Open to In Progress

I think that the best solution here is to remove the group separator when the editor has focus and it ready to accept user input.

So, the display value would be "1.000.000,99"
When the user click on the cell to edit the value, it becomes "1000000,99"
When the field looses the focus, the value is formatted again and becomes "1.000.000,99"

Opinions?