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[Feature]: Style option for columns affected by a Display Format #3404

@Ailothaen

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@Ailothaen

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Hello,

Apologies if this feature should be part of another feature request (especially #2283)

Display Formats in DB Browser for SQLite are really useful, and I personally use them a lot to display date and time instead of an Unix timestamp. However, if I read the documentation here, it states that:

There is no indication in the UI for which columns a format has been set.

This can be confusing if we are opening a database with a lot of different columns, and we do not know which ones are affected by a display format.

My suggestion would be to add an option in Preferences > Data Browser > Field display, so that formatted columns could have the opportunity to appear under a different appearance. (See below for screenshots)

Does this feature exist in another product or project? Please provide a link

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Here is how it could look in the configuration panel (the 4th line was added by me)

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And then, the formatted text (here the datetime, which was formatted from an UNIX timestamp) would turn green, according to the setting:

Formatted2

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